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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

No he did the honorable thing and resigned. It's that simple. Clinton did the dishonorable thing and put himself above the interests of the country and sweated it out and wasted a year of the country's time and efforts. There is no argument on that point.


121 posted on 06/02/2005 5:53:47 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: cyncooper

"you haven't addressed the Kerry Watergate era campaign engaging in a Watergate like break in."

Since he did not hold an office it was not relevant to our conversation and like I said, both sides do unethical things to help out their side. There are no clean hands in politics. That is why people don't like politicians.


122 posted on 06/02/2005 5:54:45 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: SerpentDove

Just curious. What law did he break?


123 posted on 06/02/2005 5:57:05 PM PDT by obnogs
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To: netengineer
Maybe you feel that breaking into an office for political advantage and covering it up is good government and a valid way of doing things.

The above is your comment. I then pointed out the Kerry 1972 break-in and asked you if that would disqualify Kerry from the Presidency.

It was a relevent point in light of your broad statement.

I'll guess you'll concede that since you agree with Nixon's resignation that one who would be connected, however remotely, to such activity ought not occupy the office, which would cover Kerry.

Say, who'd you vote for?

LOL

124 posted on 06/02/2005 5:59:42 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: ex-snook

Situational ethics is ALWAYS a sign of a liberal, whether they admit it or not.


125 posted on 06/02/2005 6:03:52 PM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: plain talk

"Clinton did the dishonorable thing and put himself above the interests of the country and sweated it out and wasted a year of the country's time and efforts."

That may be true, but Clinton being the ultimate poll watcher did not feel the need to resign since the majority of the public didn't have a problem with it. Besides, didn't the impeachment managers in the House loose their next election? Asa Hutchinson comes to mind and I believe Henry Hyde.

Clinton also figured he would win the support of the Dems. Even Sen. Liberman, who had a problem with what Clinton did, did not vote to toss Clinton out of office. Whereas Nixon knew that many Republicans wouldn't support him. So he knew he would have lost his battle and therefore spared himself the humiliation.


126 posted on 06/02/2005 6:03:56 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: cyncooper

This is the first time that I heard that about Kerry.


127 posted on 06/02/2005 6:06:41 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: netengineer; cyncooper
Maybe you feel that breaking into an office for political advantage and covering it up is good government and a valid way of doing things.

Evidently your hero, Mr. Felt, feels that way; that is what HE was convicted of.

128 posted on 06/02/2005 6:07:09 PM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: Howlin

I just checked out your Free Republic home page. Those are very cute pics!


129 posted on 06/02/2005 6:10:24 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: Howlin

I never heard that Felt was convicted of anything. When and where?


130 posted on 06/02/2005 6:11:12 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: Treader

Uh, that quote was told to me by a friends relative who in the good ole days was part of the Wallace machine, which, for all it's flaws, was the most effective government we ever had here. It's one of the reasons that I am working to build a one-party Republican state here in Alabama. The GOP has a golden oppurtunity to have what the Dems had for 100 years. Where all Southerners, of all races would be Republican. Where in any given Southern state, the margins for the GOP candidate would be the margins Roosevelts used to get down here in the 30's. And ironically enough, there are alot of ex-Democrats who want to see this happen too. Just because we became Republican doesn't mean we ever believed that the two party system was a good one.

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And as for Linda Tripp, it is unfair that the media portrayed her the way they did cause she was a hero too.


131 posted on 06/02/2005 6:15:22 PM PDT by AzaleaCity5691 (Farragut got lucky, if we had been on our game, we would have blasted him off Dauphin Island)
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To: netengineer

yeah, a calculating slime. It was all about Bill Clinton. As I said, Nixon did the honorable thing for the country while Clinton raped the country and then asked us to put some ice on it.

Thanks but no time for chat.

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132 posted on 06/02/2005 6:15:50 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: netengineer
Henry Hyde did not lose his election. Most of the impeachment managers were, in fact, re-elected, and many still serve in Congress.

There was no one happier than I when Nixon resigned. I considered him a villain. I was a democrat at that time, and foolishly believed that what the media told me was true.

Thirty years of experience have taught me that a great deal about what we were told about Nixon was exagerration and fabrication. Did he break the law? Yes. Did he resign? Yes. You can speculate about his motives, but the fact is that he resigned to spare himself, his family, and the country an impeachment trial.

Bill Clinton didn't have that much consideration.

133 posted on 06/02/2005 6:19:22 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple


Nixon could have rightly challenged 1960's presidential election too.


134 posted on 06/02/2005 6:23:29 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: onyx

"Nixon could have rightly challenged 1960's presidential election too.

That is definitely true and it was an honorable thing that he didn't challenge the election. Hey, I used honorable and Nixon in the same sentence. Isn't that amazing! Well, maybe he was more honorable in 1960.


135 posted on 06/02/2005 6:28:49 PM PDT by netengineer
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To: netengineer
I never heard that Felt was convicted of anything. When and where?

Not only convicted but...are you sitting down?...pardoned by Reagan.

Alas dinner calls and I can't find the link for you right now. I'll check back later.

136 posted on 06/02/2005 6:32:30 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: netengineer

Nixon resigned because he didn't want to compromise the Office of the President. Bill Clinton didn't care what he compromised.


137 posted on 06/02/2005 6:42:21 PM PDT by KingofQue
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To: netengineer

Kind of like Gore taking campaign contributions from destitute monks?


138 posted on 06/02/2005 6:44:43 PM PDT by KingofQue
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To: cyncooper

He was convited of ordering illegal wiretaps in 1980, and one of his witnesses in his defense was...Richard Nixon.

He was convicted anyway, and later pardoned by Reagan.

The creep is a master manipulator, including manipulating Woodward to attain his own ends.


139 posted on 06/02/2005 6:48:40 PM PDT by Voir Dire (I'm seeing and saying.)
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To: Doe Eyes

Absolutely right, Doe Eyes.

Clinton was unfairly investigated as well. Right?


140 posted on 06/02/2005 6:51:40 PM PDT by stands2reason (It's 2005, and two wrongs still don't make a right.)
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