Howard Phillips on Mark Felt - (former Nixon staffer speaks out)

Mark Felt’s admission in the July edition of Vanity Fair that he was "Deep Throat", one of those who supplied inside information to The Washington Post to discredit, disable, and destroy Richard Nixon, should be properly understood.

Mark Felt, then the Associate Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was not a hero. He was a traitor. He betrayed his responsibilities to the President, and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from whose secret, confidential files he excerpted information for transmission to Left-wing "journalists" who sought to undo the results of the 1972 Presidential election in which Richard Nixon trounced George McGovern in a record-breaking landslide.

Mr. Felt was not a hero. He was a resentful, self-aggrandizing, self-serving wretch, used by others to advance their nefarious purposes. It is revealing that the decision to disclose his identity was prodded by family members who thought they could make money from the resulting media coverage.

Felt should be recorded in the history books alongside Benedict Arnold, although the harm done by Felt was greater.

I say all of this as a man in comprehensive disagreement with Richard Nixon’s policies, even as I admired and continue to admire Richard Nixon the man.

A 1962 graduate of Harvard College where he was twice elected president of the Student Council, Phillips is President of Policy Analysis, Inc. (PAI), a for-profit consulting firm which publishes the bimonthly Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy Bulletin (HPISB).

During the Nixon Administration, Phillips headed two Federal agencies, ending his Executive Branch career as Director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity in the Executive Office of the President, a position from which he resigned when President Nixon reneged on his commitment to veto further funding for "Great Society" programs.

Phillips has published four books: The New Right at Harvard (1983), Moscow's Challenge to U.S. Vital Interests in Sub-Saharan Africa (1987), The Next Four Years (1992), and Victory 2000 (1999). He was the recipient of the Strategic Resource Group's William Wilberforce Award for "Ministry to the Nation/Public Policy" in September, 1996; the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools Award, 1995; the Young Americans for Freedom "Alumnus of the Year" Award, 1990; the National Association of Pro-America 1983 Award for "promoting Constitutional government"; and the June, 1982 Eagle Forum Award, for leadership in the pro-family cause and "steadfast opposition to the mischief of the Federally financed feminists". In May, 2002, the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty conferred upon him the title of "Patriot".

When porn peddler Larry Flynt offered a million dollars to anyone who would tell of sexual escapades with a congressmen it caused a flurry in the MSM. Hundreds came forward with stories about democrat infidelities. Flynt was forced to announced the payment was only to catch Republicans. The MSM looked the other way -- they don't go after their own...

Felt chose Woodward and Bernstein for several reasons but the most important was lack of experience. Felt assumed inexperienced reporters wouldn't ask too many questions about secondary agendas. Felt knew the elders at the Post wouldn't get involved in the early stories. He wouldn't want his motives questioned by seasoned reporters. But it was an unnecessary concern.

The Post, like Larry Flynt, didn't care as long as the information hurt Republicans. Seasoned reporters, not seasoned reporters, it didn't matter. It was dirt on a Republican and that's all that mattered.

If this type of material had been leaked about a Democrat, the story would have been about outing the leaker.

Would the MSM have outed Kennedy if they knew he was jeopardizing national security by working with the Mob or assisting with voter fraud in Chicago? Had an undercover FBI official come to them with that news, they would have ignored the story. Or likes a common porn peddlers, would the MSM invoke a double standard?

Carl Bernstein, currently a Contributing Editor at Vanity
Fair Magazine, is best known as half of Woodward &
Bernstein (a.k.a. "Woodstein"), the pair of Washington
Post investigative reporters who broke the Watergate story
that led to Republican President Richard M. Nixon's
resignation. For this reporting he shared a 1973 Pulitzer
Prize with Bob Woodward.

Carl Bernstein was born in February 1944, the red diaper
son (communist) of a radical labor union lawyer and activist
mother. "I went with my mother, and I was on a lot of
those picket lines as a kid," he told an interviewer in
2002. "I did not like the fact that my parents were of the
left. There was a period there that I didn't like it at
all. And I was pretty rebellious about it."

In his 1989 book Loyalties: A Son's Memoir (Simon &
Schuster), Bernstein describes how he rebelled against his
father Alfred's atheism by insisting on being Bar
Mitzvahed. "You don't want me to be Jewish," he recounted
telling his parents. "This has to do with your politics.
And it's not right. And you don't really believe in
freedom. It's communism…."

Bernstein acknowledged in this memoir that both his
parents were secret members of the Communist Party USA
(CPUSA), two of thousands brought by the Party to
Washington, D.C. during Democratic President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.

"You're going to prove [anti-Communist U.S. Senator
Joseph] McCarthy was right," Bernstein quotes his father
telling him when he was writing his memoir, "because all
he was saying is that the system was loaded with
Communists. And he was right…. I'm worried about the kind
of book you're going to write and about cleaning up
McCarthy. The problem is that everybody said he was a
liar; you're saying he was right…. I agree that the
[Communist] Party was a force in the country."

In 1960 Bernstein, then 16, began working as a copy boy at
the Washington Star, which he later described as "a great
newspaper…a better newspaper than the Washington Post at
the time." In November 1963 Bernstein transcribed then-
Star (later Post) reporter David Broder's telephoned story
from Dallas, Texas in 1963 on the day President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated.

Bernstein entered the University of Maryland but dropped
out in 1965 to work full-time as a reporter for the
Elizabeth Journal in New Jersey.

In 1966 Bernstein was hired by the Washington Post to
cover police, court and city hall beats. In 2002 he
described the Post he joined as biased. "At the time, the
Washington Post had, deservedly so, a reputation to some
extent for slanting stories, and it did." By contrast, its
rival the Star, he said, "really had the best of old-
fashioned journalistic, play-it-straight values." The
Star, Bernstein said, also had "great reporters as well as
some real characters straight out of [the play] The Front
Page," while the Post was much more sterile, rigid and
conformist. "When I went to work at the Washington Post,"
he wrote, "I thought I was going to work for an insurance
company. I really did."

In June 1972 one of Post Metro Division's newest
reporters, Bob Woodward, was assigned to cover a petty
burglary of the Democratic Party's headquarters at the
Watergate complex. After doing a sidebar piece to
Woodward's story, Bernstein persuaded editors to assign
him to cover it as well. The two reporters used marginally
ethical methods, including unnamed sources and
confidential telephone and credit card records to link the
arrested burglars to the Committee to Re-elect the
President (called by them "CREEP").

Source: www.discoverthenetwork.org

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