Posted on 06/02/2005 1:00:50 PM PDT by show me state
Deep Throat Also Leaked Information In Agnew's Case Fmr. Md. Governor, Vice President Resigned After Tax Evasion Conviction
POSTED: 2:01 pm EDT June 2, 2005
BALTIMORE -- The former FBI official who revealed himself this week as Deep Throat apparently also leaked information to The Washington Post about two of the biggest stories in Maryland in the 1970s.
Post reporter Bob Woodward wrote in Thursday's paper that Mark Felt told him in the spring of 1972 during the Watergate investigation that the FBI had some information that Vice President Spiro Agnew had received a $2,500 bribe.
The tip produced no story, but Agnew resigned in 1973 upon his conviction for income-tax evasion. A Maryland judge found in 1981 that Agnew had accepted kickbacks as Maryland governor.
Woodward also said Felt was his source for a 1972 story about the investigation into the wounding of Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace in Laurel. Woodward cited "high federal officials" as saying there was no indication that suspect Arthur Bremer had been hired to shoot Wallace.
George Beall, the former U.S. attorney who prosecuted both Agnew and Bremer, said the leaks didn't hurt either case. He said the reported bribe to Agnew wasn't substantiated, and the Bremer story eased concerns about a possible conspiracy.
Beall said he's not surprised that Felt was the source of the leaks, since his high-ranking position at the FBI made him privy to virtually all the information the agency collected.
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Perhaps that's because the truth is optional at the DK.
Apparently his primary reason was anger over being passed over for the head spot at the FBI.
So noble.
"I'll put you down under the "Favors Situational Ethics" column."
I don't consider it ethics. I consider it checks and balances of our government.
I believe both sides believe the other side believes the truth is optional as long as it supports their point of view.
Mad Magazine once did a parody of the state mottoes on license plates. One of their plates said "Maryland - Cradle of Graft".
Breaking the law is now checks and balances?
Enough with the "both sides" garbage.
Do you admit that CBS tried to further a baseless story about George W. Bush based on fake documents?
I believe this is also known as the dem credo "the ends justify the means".
"Nixon did the honorable thing and resigned. Clinton was a selfish porkface."
Nixon didn't want to be humiliated in a long drawn out drama. He didn't resign out of honor. Nixon and honor just do not go together. that is what you call an oxymoron.
"Breaking the law is now checks and balances?"
How did we jump from showing the president secret FBI files to breaking the law?
So Clinton's willingness to withstand excruciating (for us if not him) humiliation is some sign of honor in your world?
"the ends justify the means".
Isn't that what was said about the Republicans about the justification to go to war in Iraq on less than accurate intelligence?
"So Clinton's willingness to withstand excruciating (for us if not him) humiliation is some sign of honor in your world?"
No. But don't make Nixon to be all honorable either.
It's been said. It's not factually true.
So, you agree the intelligence has been less than desired. I take it you are a Bolton backer, then?
Good for you.
Some of us remember that era and I hate to burst your bubble, but Nixon did have a sense of honor.
You hit a winner. I think he/she conceded with a change in subject.
Well, tell us more. We're all ears.
Maybe there are others in addition to Felt that committed crimes, you're saying.
I was not the one who changed the subject. I challenged Howlin on why he changed the subject.
Btw, you haven't addressed the Kerry Watergate era campaign engaging in a Watergate like break in. Except that one was more closely related to the candidate than the more famous Watergate.
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