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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I don't get it. The guy showed that he is nonpartisan and is just interested in good, non-corrupt government. Isn't that what conservatives stand for? Or is government corruption only bad when Democrats do it and not Republicans? Isn't that hypocritical?
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.
Good grief, is Felt actually MD4BUSH too???
Are you really serious? Since when should either party be exempt from corruption investigations? When were was the left ever exempt? It seems that Clinton was the most investigated president. So where were they given an advantage? If Felt thought that nobody above him would investigate this problem then who would he go to?
If this occured to Clinton then you would be celebrating this guy! Please choose a consistent position.
Well I wonder why? Maybe it was because he was a corrupt, selfish pork-face. Nixon paid the price and did the right thing by resigning. Clinton worried more about himself than the country and refused to resign. And you want to lecture us on consistency?
I do think it is a valid way of doing things when nobody above him can be trusted. Who else is he going to tell?
How should he have proceeded?
Do you agree that breaking and entering is a good way to run the govenment?
Who said that these people were his political enemies? He didn't pick sides. He leaked info on both the Dems and the GOP.
Felt should die in prison, joined by his greedy daughter and family.
I wonder if Woodward is leaking to discredit Felt for being backstabbed.
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What a creep.
Agnew had to be thrown over first so he would not become President. Too much 'plannin goin on out thar'. This was a team effort. Felt, Woodward and Bernstein were position players but who called the signals in this coup?
There'd be on question of his guilt if his middle name were 'Wayne.'
No, what I object to is the glorification of a senior law enforcement who broke the law, period.
I don't get it. The guy showed that he is nonpartisan and is just interested in good, non-corrupt government.
And THAT statement would make a cat laugh..
Why did Nixon resign? Because he got his hand caught in the cookie jar and was forced to. Otherwise he wouldn't have.
You might think that Clinton was corrupt but nobody was able to pin anything on him directly. Remember he wasn't convicted of ANYTHING by a Republican congress other than lying under oath about a sexual affair. It had absolutely nothing to do with corruption. Or is your version of the judicial system that you are guilty until proven innocent?
"George Wallace, whose segregationist policies were idiotic (but he was not a socialist), would have won the '72 Dem. nomination if Bremer hadn't shot him."
I doubt this is correct.
Nixon was his political enemy, big-time. Felt hated Nixon, which is why he went after him on the Watergate break-in.
He should have proceeded to let courts of law try crimes that were committed. Felt should have kept his mouth shut. The burglars were arrested and charged along with those who conspired with them, two of which were former CIA operatives.
Hunt and McCord had been heavily involved in black ops against communists. Nixon was very worried about that and the fact that they were blackmailing and threatening to leak sources and methods in the Cold War if they weren't paid off.
And no, Felt never leaked anything about the Dems, nothing about LBJ's "enemies lists", or JFK's affairs with mob chicks, etc. etc. etc.
I know it seems surprising, but Wallace was actually leading in the polls when Bremer shot him. Consider who he was running against (Muskie and McGovern).
ha ha ha. As usual you young liberals have emotions but zero facts. Clinton lied under oath to a federal grand jury. That is corruption and a felony. Come back when you have some facts, son.
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