[Black Tooth]

but there must be many 2IC's and 3IC's etc. in the CIA who, like Felt, are roiled and could be tempted to cop-a-plea as Kerry scouts his impeachment proceedings against 'W', looking for a whistleblower who is ready to provide the Democrats with the meat that is currently missing in the Blair Cabinet Report sandwich.

I couldn't agree more.

We seem to think along the same lines, and almost at the same time.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1415874/posts?page=11#11

[I. M. Trenchant]

Thanks for the URL. I hadn't seen your post, or indeed the thread in which it is found. I enjoyed both. No doubt about it, we're on the same wavelength w.r.t. the potential for mischief in the Deep Throat revelations. I was just looking at the posts that interceded between our exchanges in this thread. I marvel at some of the comments, which seem oblivious of the plight of Jews in Ireland who, when they were not victims of De Valera's zeal to rid Catholic Ireland of Jews, were saddled with old chestnuts such "A Jew never earned a living in Portadown", a bastion of the Protestant Orange Order in Norhern Ireland. If he is of Jewish ancestry, Felt, or his family before him, possibly even in Ireland, may well have had any number of reasons for not 'identifying', for adopting a non-denominational posture (as Woodward claims is the case), or simply deciding on a secular life, which, often as not, reflects a personal view that religious faith is a private matter. Much too much is being made of the exchange between Haldeman and Nixon on this matter. Most of the stuff on the tapes is like flotsam-and-jetsam on the cerebral beaches of the participants and of no importance in relation to the main point under discussion: a 2IC at the FBI is leaking, dammit !!!