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.
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..
John Kerry broke into an opponents headquarters. Look at The Lowell Sun or Lawrence Eagle Tribune archives for the story.
Also in honor of Mr. Felt's preemtion of Woodward's book after the failed shakedown. He should now be known as Deep Pockets.
Follow the money Carl.
Careful.......you hang around here long enough and you will lose your place at DU.
"The guy showed that he is nonpartisan and is just interested in good, non-corrupt government."
And he proved it by breaking the law, from one of the highest offices in the land.
What do you think of this and should it have resulted in Kerry not being eligible for the Presidency?
The Many Faces of John Kerry (Part 2)
excerpt:
On Sept. 18, 1972, the evening before the primary election during his second attempt for Congress, Kerry's brother Cameron and one Thomas Vallely, both part of his current campaign team, were arrested by Lowell police at 1:40 a.m. and charged with breaking and entering with the intent to commit larceny. The two were apprehended in the basement of a building whose door had been forced open, police said. It housed the headquarters of candidate DiFruscia. The Watergate scandal was making headlines at this time, and it was called the Lowell Watergate.
"They wanted to sever my telephone lines," DiFruscia said recently. Had those lines been cut, Kerry's opponent would not have been able to telephone supporters on Election Day to get out the vote and coordinate poll watchers, vital roles in a close election. "I do not know if they wanted to break into my office," says DiFruscia today. At the time he said, "All my IBM cards and the list of my voter identification in the greater Lowell area are in my headquarters."
Cameron and Vallely, along with David Thorne, who was Kerry's campaign manager at the time and has been close to him since they attended Yale together, did not deny the two entered the building in which they were captured. They said at the time they were in the cellar of the building to check their own telephone lines because they had received an anonymous call warning they would be cut.
This reporter heard an allegation that another congressional candidate placed the alleged anonymous call, which was denied. But if the Kerry campaign was concerned about someone breaking and entering to cut off its telephone service, why didn't they just call the police? Why break the law? And what does any of this say about Kerry's mind-set? Kerry campaign officials did not answer important Lowellgate questions.
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BTW, a guy interested in a non-corrupt government shouldn't engage in unethical behavior, like leaking classified information to a reporter when he had direct access to the proper attorneys and agencies, or--here's a thought--a microphone.
It is plain that part of Felt's motivation was grievance over his job situation and part partisan.
It would have been nice if he wanted to remain anonymous he hadn't openly lied for years after the fact and well away from any threat of retaliation you might cite and actually put in writing he was not the source.
He is a deceitful and vengeful man.
Not one word I have written remotely implies a defense of Nixon.
Kind of like Gore taking campaign contributions from destitute monks?