[kingattax]

source and article here :


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/article/deepthroat31.html

[kcvl]

Thanks!

[Celtjew Libertarian]

From the article:

Woodward said Felt helped The Post at a time of tense relations between the White House and much of the FBI hierarchy. He said the Watergate break-in came shortly after the death of legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Felt's mentor, and that Felt and other bureau officials wanted to see an FBI veteran promoted to succeed Hoover.

Felt himself had hopes that he would be the next FBI director, but Nixon instead appointed an administration insider, assistant attorney general L. Patrick Gray, to the post.

Hmmm.... You have to wonder: Did Felt feel slighted for being passed over for promotion by Nixon and pass on the info to Woodward and Bernstein, not out of duty and honor, but out of revenge?

[wildbill]

Since he had an ax to grind (wanting to be FBI director), you begin to wonder how selfless his revelations were.

And why would anyone at the FBI feel the investigation needed an inquiry by two relatively unknown reporters to get if on track? The idea of our top federal law enforcement agency dipping into the political waters anonymously is a little unsettling.