Posted on 06/02/2005 8:21:22 PM PDT by John Robertson
While many MSM'ers (sorry, most) are lionizing this guy as "a hero," someone who "did what he had to do," something big is being missed.
Our side has pointed out that he authorized/engineered illegal breakins himself...
And that he turned on the Whitehouse because he didn't get the top FBI job. Now think about that....
Felt became a snitch because he didn't get something he wanted! He was an opportunist, plain and simple (and it runs in the family, apparently, as they shamelessly say they urged the old man to do it so they could all get some money). Yeah, a real hero.
But here's what I haven't seen....
If they had made him the head of the FBI, he WOULD NOT have turned on the Whitehouse.
In fact, as head of the FBI....
HE WOULD HAVE HELPED THEM BURY WATERGATE!
That's kcvl's postings from today -- one of them anyway.
Maybe she can give us the source.
What key involvement do you think he had? Nixon was President and had the political power. Mitchell controlled the money at CREEP and dictated how it was going to be used. Liddy and Hunt actually organized the break-in. What's left to lay at Dean's door?
I despise Nixon the most because he had the responsibility, the authority, and the power to put ethical people into the administration to uphold the oath he took. I think he failed miserably at this and then compounded the problem by obstructing justice.
Likewise, Mitchell had the responsibility, the authority, and the power to see that the laws of the United States were upheld. Instead he organized a criminal organization financed with laundered money. I forget whether he was one of those convicted of perjury. I expect much more from the Attorney General of the US.
And what can one say about people like Liddy and Hunt? They have no bounds on the means they will use to achieve the ends they justify.
If Dean understated his culpability, what did he conceal? What crime of omission or commision most stands out that makes you despise Dean?
So does she. :-)
Did you read the part where Ben Bradlee was doing some shilling about the Rosenbergs in France?
Wasn't Smathers one of JFK's big swinging buddies?
Jackie Kennedy always gets credit for renovating the White House; the truth is that she started it, but Pat Nixon did the majority of the work and never got credit for it.
I remember when Pat decorated the WH.
Remember when Tricia got married?
He never worked in the White House; he carried papers over there.
Moorer and the rest of the chiefs tried to overthrow Nixon, IMO.
Oh, wasn't THAT glamrous? I hope one of the Bush girls gets married before 2008!
Sounds like Hillary could have said that.
;-)
In my post #302 above I questioned why one would choose to despise Dean above all others. I would ask you the same.
Felt was evidently convicted at some time for "authorizing" warrantless searches presumed to be aimed at tracking down domestic terrorists. I find this despicable and expect the FBI to follow the Constitution. The goal of tracking down domestic terrorists, however, is a good one.
In the case of the Watergate leaks, one should question Felt's motives because sometimes people will have motive to lie and deceive. Felt had no such motive. His motive may have been revenge for being passed over, but his actions were aimed at uncovering a conspiracy involving the President, an Attorney General, and a cast of dozens who later are convicted of felonies. Felt had no duty to protect information that our President was a crook. I doubt that there was any more effective way to get the truth out.
Here...
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and here...
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Joe DeGenova last night on Matthews' Spitball show said Felt, if he were an honorable guy, should have gone to Congress with what he knew about this "cancer on the White House". Joe said that afterall it wasn't like the Congress was controlled by the Republicans at the time. He mentioned that Felt should go to guys like Mike Mansfield and others..... he would have gotten a welcoming ear.
That would have been the right thing to do rather than go to the lowly Woodward and Bernstein.
A member of the Democratic Party, Smathers was elected to the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congresses (January, 1947 to January, 1951). He also served in the Senate (January, 1951, to January, 1969). In 1949 Smathers met and befriended John F. Kennedy, then a young Congressman from Massachusetts.
In 1959 George Smathers became head of the committee in the South to elect Kennedy. However, during the campaign he surprisingly decided to run against Kennedy in Florida. Later he admitted that he did this with the agreement of Lyndon B. Johnson. Kennedy was furious. Smathers later recalled: "To make a long story short, he (Kennedy) kept after me to withdraw. "I want you to withdraw. I want you to withdraw... Damn it to hell, what kind of friend are you?" And so and so. I said, "Look, I'm not going to stand here and take all this abuse, so I'm going to go out. I'm leaving."
Smathers formed a business partnership with Grant Stockdale. Their company, Automatic Vending, was involved in providing vending machines to government institutions. However, in 1961 Automatic Vending was sued for improper actions in getting a contract at Aerodex but the suit was eventually dismissed.
http://tinyurl.com/csxtj
Oh, look: it's a damn race!
Woodward's 'Deep Throat' book on tap for July release
USA Today - 2 hours ago
By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY. NEW YORK The Secret Man, Bob Woodward's book about "Deep Throat," his key source during the Watergate scandal, will be released next month, his publisher announced Thursday. ...
"He carried papers over there".
Agreed - his wife and Dad may have had a misperception of his job. Or perhaps Woodward bragged it up a bit. Or perhaps not.
"He carried papers over there".
That's what HE says. In "Silent Coup", Adm. Moorer said Woodward WAS a briefer "some people are good at standing on their feet in front of the Admiral and giving the summary of the latest messages...and Woodward could do that."
"former secretary of Defense Mrlvin Laid..told us "Yes, I was aware that Haig was being briefed by Woodward."
And he briefed in secret. His shift buddy and superiors in the Navy didn't know about the briefings (up to Admiral Welander). The authors of "Silent Coup" said "We can't prove it, but the evidence suggests that Woodward might well have served as a human backchannel between Haig and the JCS, carrying information so sensitvie that it could only be conveyed by a specially selected briefing officer."
Later that week I processed my film and for the first time, took a look at the single frame of President John F. Kennedy. As it turned out, I got a perfect photo. It was probably 90 percent skill and 10 percent just plain luck that the limo was pictured directly in front of my place with Senator Smathers, sitting inside next to President Kennedy, pointing to the Channel 13 cameras about 75 feet ahead.
I want some of the royalties from this Watergate book you guys are writing
"NOT that this has anything to do with this ... but check out who was suppose to work for Smathers"
Good lord these people really are all related or connected to eachother. Hey....I got an idea for a game..... :)
Good! We can compare what each one says. lol!
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