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Deep Throat Also Leaked Information In Agnew's Case
TheWBALChannel.com ^ | 2:01 pm EDT June 2, 2005 | AP

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: deepthroat; feltgate; markfelt; spiroagnew
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To: netengineer; Mo1
I can post contrary views at the dailykos without be harassed.

Perhaps that's because the truth is optional at the DK.

101 posted on 06/02/2005 5:32:26 PM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: Black Tooth
He didn't help smoke Nixon because of any political party. The reasons he did it to Nixon are pretty clear.

Apparently his primary reason was anger over being passed over for the head spot at the FBI.

So noble.

102 posted on 06/02/2005 5:33:11 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Howlin

"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.


103 posted on 06/02/2005 5:33:29 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: Howlin

I believe both sides believe the other side believes the truth is optional as long as it supports their point of view.


104 posted on 06/02/2005 5:34:44 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: show me state
A Maryland judge found in 1981 that Agnew had accepted kickbacks as Maryland governor.

Mad Magazine once did a parody of the state mottoes on license plates. One of their plates said "Maryland - Cradle of Graft".

105 posted on 06/02/2005 5:36:25 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: netengineer
I don't consider it ethics. I consider it checks and balances of our government.

Breaking the law is now checks and balances?

106 posted on 06/02/2005 5:36:29 PM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: netengineer

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?


107 posted on 06/02/2005 5:37:30 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Howlin
Breaking the law is now checks and balances?

I believe this is also known as the dem credo "the ends justify the means".

108 posted on 06/02/2005 5:38:42 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: plain talk

"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.


109 posted on 06/02/2005 5:38:54 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: Howlin

"Breaking the law is now checks and balances?"

How did we jump from showing the president secret FBI files to breaking the law?


110 posted on 06/02/2005 5:40:30 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: netengineer
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.

So Clinton's willingness to withstand excruciating (for us if not him) humiliation is some sign of honor in your world?

111 posted on 06/02/2005 5:41:48 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: cyncooper

"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?


112 posted on 06/02/2005 5:42:57 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: cyncooper

"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.


113 posted on 06/02/2005 5:44:02 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: cyncooper
The entire top half of the Bureau was angry. He was just the one that acted, and it is likely he was not alone in collecting intel for the purposes of passing it on.
114 posted on 06/02/2005 5:44:12 PM PDT by Black Tooth
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To: netengineer
Isn't that what was said about the Republicans about the justification to go to war in Iraq on less than accurate intelligence?

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.

115 posted on 06/02/2005 5:44:50 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: netengineer

Some of us remember that era and I hate to burst your bubble, but Nixon did have a sense of honor.


116 posted on 06/02/2005 5:45:53 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Howlin
"Breaking the law is now checks and balances?"

You hit a winner. I think he/she conceded with a change in subject.

117 posted on 06/02/2005 5:46:51 PM PDT by ex-snook (Exporting jobs and the money to buy America is lose-lose.)
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To: Black Tooth

Well, tell us more. We're all ears.

Maybe there are others in addition to Felt that committed crimes, you're saying.


118 posted on 06/02/2005 5:50:23 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: ex-snook

I was not the one who changed the subject. I challenged Howlin on why he changed the subject.


119 posted on 06/02/2005 5:50:27 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: netengineer

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.


120 posted on 06/02/2005 5:51:31 PM PDT by cyncooper
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