IMO, the questions you raise are legitimate, and would not have come to the fore, if Felt hadn't surfaced at this point in time, with his family front and center, angling for big bucks off this disgraceful incident.
Felt's slavish fanaticism to his own self-serving ambitions, caused him to ignore SOP, and the good of the country, choosing instead to go sub rosa with his story to the media.
What was Felt's hidden agenda?
It is no small consideration that the post-Nixon nation saw the horrific rise of liberalism---and the juggernaut to tolerate every idiocy the left wing could concoct.
Was Felt's disturbing motivation solely to satisfy his vainglorious ambitions?
No wonder Felt was passed over for promotion. The FBI had
his number, alright.
Any other agent would be prosecuted for violating his oath of loyalty to the USA as an FBI agent.
What a TV news spectacle this guy's family put on---crowing about his "heroics."
Now it seems they are itching only to pocket the proceeds from his depraved conduct while an offical of the US government.
Good point Liz. Another of the left's hero-zero's trying to seek some unprofessional glory. Hell! what can we expect from an idiot like felt and family. NSNR