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What about Moorer's spying on Kissinger and leaking word of the "tilt to Pakistan" because the Navy preferred India, with its long coastline? This showed Moorer to be insubordinate and narrowly parochial. Here's one summary:

http://hnn.us/roundup/16.html

In 1970 the Joint Chiefs of Staff, frustrated with Nixon's and Kissinger's penchant for secrecy, began spying on the executive branch. At the order of Admiral Thomas Moorer, Navy yeoman Charles Edward Radford, began Xeroxing secret documents from the National Security Council, where he was posted. He copied more than 5,000 documents. According to historian Melvin Small, Radford boasted that he "took so darn much stuff I can't remember what it was." Defense Secretary Melvin Laird was unaware of the spying. Al Haig was, according to a statement provided by Robert O. Welander, the chiefs' liaison with the NSC who transmitted the orders from Moorer to Radford.

In December 1971 Kissinger's tilt toward Pakistan in the India-Pakistan war was revealed in a column by Jack Anderson. The infamous Plumbers investigated, discovering the spy ring involving Moorer, Welander and Radford. Radford insisted he was not the source of the leak to Anderson, but admitted spying on behalf of the joint chiefs of staff.

When told about the spy ring, Nixon threatened to put Moorer, Radford and Welander in jail. But upon reflection he chose to do nothing, though Radford was transferred from the White House. A few months later he reappointed Moorer as head of the joint chiefs of staff. Small speculates that by leaving Moorer in place Nixon felt he could exercise leverage against the admiral. The story remained secret until the Watergate investigation in 1973.

I will have to admit that I am not familiar with that accusation.

If it is true, I would like to know more details etc. before deciding Moorer was wrong.

I have seen him many times on different news shows and read his statements in newspapers, magazines and other news outlets and have never, not even once, disagreed with anything he said.

I read about the Moorer-Radford-Haig spy affair in several books, including the Bob Woodward book and "Silent Coup." If I remember correctly, the antipathy of the military/intelligence community toward Nixon was supposed to be the underlying reason for the Watergate break-in (where several high level CIA operatives participated in a "third rate burglary") and the forced resignation of Nixon.

Admiral Moorer may have been a fine man, but he was very much a part of the military/intelligence community which put itself above and in charge of presidents and Congress time and time again.