WATERGATE HYPOCRISY: LIBERALS LIONIZE LEAKER

NY POST ^ | June 3, 2005 | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

[Puppage]

If they had made him the head of the FBI, he WOULD NOT have turned on the Whitehouse

Wouldn't that be like caving into extortion? Assuming they were aware of what he'd do.

In any event, it's still a "what if" scenario.

[The_Media_never_lie]

"Journalistic pride", lol. Now there's a term.

Almost as good as "journalistic integrity".

[SkyPilot]

Bob Woodward is nervous about Mark Felt. I believe he is afraid that certain discrepancies (and embellishments) in his book "All The President's Men" will be brought to light if Felt contradicts him.

Look at this amazing quote from Newsmax: Woodward: 'Throat' Not Competent for Book Deal:

Millionaire investigative reporter Bob Woodward said Wednesday that he decided not to collaborate on a book with the "Deep Throat" source who made his Watergate reporting possible because the source now suffers from dementia. "My judgment was - in talking to Mark Felt - that he wasn't competent at that point," the star Watergate reporter told radio host Don Imus.

Let's face some other facts--Woodward wants more millions for his bank account and money to redecorate his mansion in Georgetown again. He doesn't want competition from the amateur "Felt Family of Money grubbers" for book sales either.

But what really bothers Woodward is being exposed for certain "literally exaggerations" that he is prone too. Remember the supposed deathbed conversation he had with Bob Casey as the CIA Director lay dying in a hospital bed in 1987?

Woodward claimed Casey gave some dramatic "I believed" before he passed out regarding diversion of funds to the Contras. Casey's family and the hospital staff swore on a stack of bibles that Woodward never got anywhere near Casey's hospital bed, but Woodward stuck to that tale--and still does to this day. How could a dead man contradict him?

So now Mark Felt has dementia--and good ole' Bob will thwart any contradictions in his account as the ramblings of a "sick old man."

[af_vet_1981]

What is the difference between Mark Felt and Jonathan Pollard, other than Pollard is in prison and their ages ?

[texson66]

G. Gordon Liddy said it best. Felt failed as an FBI agent in that if he had incriminating evidence he should have brought it to a grand jury, not leak it to the press.

Felt probably also had personal reasons for doing what he did too. (like not being Director of the FBI)

I blame the press (Washlesspost)and the "MSM" here too. They certainly had a political agenda.

Felt and the Post are both stinkers, not heroes as the Left believes (ever notice how much Felt's daughter looks and acts like Jane Fonda!)

[Liz]

The questions arising today from this longago incident are legitimate, and would not have come to the fore if Felt hadn't surfaced at this point in time, with his family front and center, angling for big bucks off this disgraceful incident.

What a TV news spectacle this guy's family put on---crowing about his "heroics." Now it seems they are itching only to pocket the proceeds from his depraved conduct while an offical of the US government.

What was Felt's hidden agenda? Felt's slavish fanaticism to his own self-serving ambitions, caused him to ignore SOP, and the good of the country, choosing instead to go sub rosa with his story to the Nixon-hating media.

[John Robertson]

Grampa, I'm gonna have to put you on the payroll, for flogging my thread. Thanks.

[John Robertson]

Take a look at the link on #20.

[Grampa Dave]

Double my salary.

Two times zero is zero!

Your thread forces people to thing about what might have happened to America if Watergate hadn't happened.

Your thread also, helps people not familiar with Watergate to realize what Watergate cost America and the world.

Heck triple my salary!

[Liz]

The elitist, unmitigated contempt Pollard has evinced for America, and for law-abiding Americans, does seem to have a parallel in the actions of Felt. Pollard his then-wife, Ann, were well-paid for their activities ....even though they keep saying they did it for "ideological reasons." Ann Pollard--who went free--got an expensive ring, and her treasonous husband got money. God knows how much was secreted offshore for their later use.

Now Felt is cashing in.

What irks Americans most is the ceaseless attempts to gloss over Pollard's treason---and to free him with the implicit assumption that Pollard, as a Jewish American, would be more loyal to his fanaticism than to American laws. Pollard lied to the federal government when he was cutting his deal to have his then-wife go free, and is now using every trick to get himself out---just as Felt made an agreement and is now trying to weasel out of it. The most repulsive thing about Pollard---and now Felt---are the claims that they were prompted by solicitude for others, when in reality cold, hard cash was the lure. If Felt--- like Pollard--- felt such a powerful sense of responsibility he would not have committed irresposnible acts----or in Pollard's case---illegal acts. The reason Pollard is still in jail is that he never came clean, never telling the US government who he was colluding with to steal classified documents. That, and the fact that Israel never gave the documents back, and in fact is suspected of selling classified US documents to America's enemies.


Wouldn't it be ironic if there is parallel with Felt there, as well?

[Liz]

Nice contribution to the thread----lot there to ponder. And now we watch and wait.

[Liz]

So I've heard.

[Liz]

Have no idea, but there are lots of "conspiracy theories" out there.

A federal judge in the 60's ruled that the FBI files on MLK's "links" to communist sympathizers should remain top-secret until 2027. Senator Jesse Helms appealed to the USSC Court in 1983 to release the files, so that the Senate bill to create the Martin Luther King Federal Holiday could be abolished. He was denied.


MLK was under FBI surveillance for several years (until he died) due to his supposed ties with communist organizations nationwide.

Pardon me, but one cannot read King's speeches and writings and conclude that he proselytized communist teachings.

Perhaps it's a matter of guilt by association since supposedly a couple of individuals working within the Southern Christian Leadership conference were apparently former Communists---(maybe an I Love Lucy-type affiliation).

That made the Kennedy's nervous, and later reports say neither USAG Robert Kennedy nor the FBI could find any indication that employees had Communist ties while working for MLK's organization.

[af_vet_1981]

Wouldn't it be ironic if there is parallel with Felt there, as well?

Felt contributed significantly to the forced resignation of the President, the consequent loss of a war and the resulting deaths of thousands.

A hero for the North Vietnamese perhaps ...

[texson66]

Nice and concise summary!

[shhrubbery!]

Woodward clearly lied about Bill Casey. Even if Woodward had somehow managed to get past hospital security and Casey's family to his bedside, Casey was aphasic at that time and totally incapable of communicating what Woodward claimed he did.

Woodward is probably lying about Deep Throat too.

Last night on the John Batchelor show, Len Colodny (author of Silent Coup: The Removal of a President), said there were time line discrepancies with Woodward's account in All the President's Men: Mark Felt, if he were "Deep Throat," could not have had access to the information Woodward claimed D.T. gave him in some of their alleged garage meetings --at the times Woodward claimed he received the information.

Colodny's main example was the "intentionally erased" portions of the Oval Office tapes. Woodward claimed D.T. gave him that info at a time when it would've been impossible for Mark Felt to have known it.

[SkyPilot]

Casey was aphasic at that time and totally incapable of communicating what Woodward claimed he did.

I know--one of the doctors who treated Bill Casey came right out and said this back in 1990. The press gave him a blank stare.

Woodward better be careful---this is not 1973. This is the age of blogging, Internet scrutiny, 24 hour cable, talk radio, e-mail, and TiVo. Not only are people more paying attention, more people can question what the establishment press does.

Woodward is back in the white hot spotlight, which is what he lusts for. But it is a double-edged sword for him. All this attention might bring unwanted disclosures that he knows could embarrass him. He has clearly made things up and lied in the past. If he thinks he is "above it all", be better think about what has happened to his friends at the NY Times, Newsweek, and CNN. Oh, and his good buddy Dan Rather.

[BillM]

Linda Tripp was a leaker. How did the liberal press treat her?

[Liz]

Yeah, but look at the subject of her leak......ol' "sinkmaster leaky" himself.

[Liz]

Looks like we need to get buckhead on this case.