She is more so.
Trip was heroic and paid a difficult price. Felt was exacting personal revenge and did more damage to our institutions, our culture... both in gov't and media than calculable.
But Buchanan doesn't think that Felt was a hero. He believes that Felt acted dishonorably and betrayed a confidence. And that Felt should have resigned first and then gone public. So I guess he doesn't think much of Tripp, either.
I'm really confused.
I always through that Monica was "Deep Throat".
The FBI under Lewis Freeh had no compunction about turning files over to the Clinton White House, per the request of Hildabeast. Interesting how the FBI is most accommodating when it comes to a 'Rat administration and how dangerous they are to a Republican president ... at least to Nixon.
tripp is more heroic than felt - she didnt' hide her identity, she was lower on the totem pole thus more vulnerable, and she was pushed into her actions by the clinton white house.
if the democrats had anyone with the conscience of felt, or the backbone, then clinton would have been long gone. that says more good things about republican ethics than democrat.
there is no democrat john dean. had there been, hillary would not be in the senate poised to become prez.
Does Felt draw a pension?
I have a pretty low tolerance for Buchanan, but I sure agree with him on this issue.
Personally, I think both Felts and Tripp are kinda sleazy, but I'm glad they both ratted. Why does it need to be one against the other? Corruption is corruption, and it shouldn't be excused in any political party.
A demonstrable case of BIAS if ever there was one. Felt is LIONIZED and Tripp lost virtually everything and was demonized.
"Let's realize that the FBI has secret files from full field investigations on everybody that served in the highest offices of government," he noted. "And if they start deciding who and what investigations they're gonna leak to the Washington Post - you've got a police state."
Hitlary realized this. Hence the FBI files found in her closet.
I don't think the analogy is Linda Tripp. The analogy is Gary Aldrich.
Gary Aldrich resigned his position in the White House. He went public with what he knew. He did not remain inside a flawed administration. He did not access secret files or things he shouldn't, to alert the public to what the Clinton White House was all about.
It is startling to me, to know the things that Aldrich revealed, and see much of the American Public not even stop picking their noses long enough to take notice.
As someone mentioned, the FBI files alone should have brought this administration down. Gary Aldrich revealed that White House interns even had access to them.
It didn't take a violation of trust to reveal that Clinton obstructed justice, witness tampered and more. This man was vile, yet he got a free pass from the MSM and the very people who brought down President Nixon.
I think Nixon was flawed, but Bill Clinton was not just flawed, he was mostly one massive bundle of flaws with intermitant instances of non-flawed behavior, few and far between.
Clinton wasn't fit to shine the shoes of Richard Nixon. Name one person in the MSM that realizes this. That's the lesson of Watergate vs the myriad of scandles surrounding the disbared child.
MUCH MORE............. she was AFRAID for her life from the Clinton GOON squads! This *ss hole's (Felt's) worst position would be of the lame-o Daniel Ellsberg! No comparison............ Linda's is cool........... 'Deep Throat' belongs in a Shallow Moat!
First, Felt was a coward not a hero. Second, Tripp was courageous, but also not a hero.
Let's consider some of the favorite arguments.
1) The information was to come out eventually due to a letter written by one of the burglars whose hush money wasn't sufficient.
I don't know when such a letter was written, but Felt could not have been confident that such a thing would happen and that the conspiracy would be revealed.
2) Nixon didn't commit a serious crime.
Nixon knew of the break-in within days. He was a co-conspirator with those who worked to cover this up. The mission of the CIA was compromised by suggesting that the investigation of Watergate could reveal an important CIA mission. Over sixty people were eventually convicted of felonies for their parts in this corruption. Nixon received a pardon from Ford which didn't even name the particulars but basically pardoned him for any crimes committed whatever.
3) Felt should have just turned his information over to the prosecutor.
Really? Which one of the several. Those who were fired during the "Saturday Night Massacre"? Felt was able to steer W&B in the right directions but it is not clear to me that he ever had anything which in and of itself would have constituted convincing evidence of the conspiracy.
Let's remember that the Attorney General of the United States, Mitchell, was the one who had control of the secret cash which had been used to finance the break-in. The movie portrays Deep-Throat as having told W&B to "follow the money". They did that and tied a political donation check to the Committee to Re-Elect the President" (CREEP) to the orignal payments to the burglars. I have never seen anything to convince me that this wouldn't have been covered up otherwise.
4) Felt should have resigned and told his story to Congress.
Sure. Just like John Dean did. Dean was called a liar. It was suggested that Dean could not possibly have so clearly recalled the details to which he testified. Only when later verified by the tapes was it realized that what Dean described had happened.
5) The tapes themselves.
Prior to Butterfields admission that there was a taping system, it had never been revealed that there existed compelling evidence concerning the scope of the conspiracy. Without the tapes, this was just a case of over-zealous underlings. With the tapes, it becomes apparent that the corrupt approach to solving problems was the rule not the exception. Is there anyone so naive as to believe that the Watergate break-in was the first? What of the forging of documents to smear opposition candidates? What about Nixon's "Enemies List" and the use of the IRS to harass opposition?
6) Felt owed his allegiance and loyalty to his President.
Nonsense. Felt's oath was to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic, not to protect the President from accountability for crimes. The illegal search of the Democrat headquarters and the illegal attempt to seize telephone conversations is a clear violation of the Constitution. This crime was enabled by the President of the United States. We will never know what was on the 18-minute gap in the Nixon Tapes. But it must have been pretty impressive to justify such an amateurish erasure process and Wood's attempt to make it seem innocent.
He is on Hannity right now about this. "Felt is Linda Tripp without the courage."
THIS scumbag was also involved in illegal break-ins and had to have Reagan save his worthless azz.