The little snitch must have thought he was a regular "Secret Agent Man"...
Posted on 12/18/2008 10:07:11 PM PST by re_tail20
Mark Felt, the FBI official who as the anonymous journalistic source "Deep Throat" helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon, died on Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa, Calif. He was 95.
Felt suffered from congestive heart failure but the immediate cause of death was not known on Thursday night.
"He was an important person for the history of our nation, but also such a gem and such a treasure to our family," said his grandson Nick Jones, who confirmed the death. "He was a great man."
Jones said the family would issue a formal statement on Friday.
In 2005, more than 30 years after his whistle-blowing helped topple a presidency, Felt held a press conference on the front steps of his Santa Rosa home.
Felt, then 91, revealed that he was "Deep Throat," the anonymous source who in 1972 leaked information to the Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein about the Watergate scandal that eventually led to Nixon's resignation in 1974.
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Oh, right, Nixon was a Republican and Clinton was a Democrat.
He did rat out on a thoroughly corrupt president.
We need more people in government like him.
I am not defending Nixon. He was wrong. I am not defending Felt either.
No comment.
"Why is Mark Felt revered while Linda Tripp was dumped on?
Oh, right, Nixon was a Republican and Clinton was a Democrat.
Good question, good summary.
The little snitch must have thought he was a regular "Secret Agent Man"...
Nixon never made a dime off his “corruption”
He knew that sooner or later he would have to close out the DT scam and get himself off the spot, so he used a demented Felt for that purpose. One of the great liberal lies of the 20th century.
If you are right. My low regard for Woodward just got lower.
Nixon didn’t do anything a lot of other presidents did. (Have you heard about some of the things LBJ did?) But Nixon was a Republican, so he had to be punished despite All the Good he did for the Nation. He was a Great President.
It is too bad that Felt had to end his career by betraying his President and his Nation. I understand up till then he had an admirable career, but that betrayal destroyed all his previous good deeds.
SDS and radicals (William Ayers) were working to violently overthrow and destroy this country.
Felt was a self-absorbed turncoat.
His demise explains the unusual warm spell here; the gates of hades have opened to welcome him.
Oh the irony.
http://flapsblog.com/2008/04/23/barack-obama-watch-why-wasnt-william-ayers-prosecuted/
Why Wasn’t William Ayers Prosecuted?
If everyone knows that William Ayers and his comrades in the Weather Underground were planning to set bombs to murder innocent people, why didn’t they do time?
Because the investigation against them was muffed thanks to the illegal activities of the Washington Post’s favorite Watergate answer man himself, Mark Felt — aka Deep Throat.
In 1972-73, FBI official Felt and his colleague Edward S. Miller authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of Weather Underground members. When the black bag jobs became public, the federal government decided it couldn’t prosecute the alleged terrorists. Indicted during the Carter Administration, Felt and Miller were tried in 1980 in Washington. Ever the patriot, former President Nixon voluntarily testified on the defendants’ behalf, but they were convicted anyway and pardoned by President Reagan in March 1981.
I didn't make that comment. You replied to thr wrong poster.
Everything I've heard about him with regard to domestic policy suggests he was a liberal.
It hard to describe Nixon as “great” as he is responsible for proposing and setting up the EPA and as a Cabinet position. Hard to think of an agency that has done more hard to America.
Oooops, LOL. Still, to heck with all the leftist bastards who put this country through the wringer so that the badly informed would call Nixon “corrupt”.
hmm... hmmm... I really can’t say anything good.
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