[wildbill]

Gary Aldrich, a former FBI agent, details why it isn't a good thing for top law enforcement officers to go outside the legal process and leak information for their own purposes.

[Donald Meaker]

Ann Coulter suggests that Felt was the earlier version of Richard Clarke.

[Enterprise]

In the time honored tradition of the picking of nits, it isn't Bernadine Doran, it's Bernardine Dohrn. Nits aside, this is a great article. (I that Aldrich is a lurker at FreeRepublic.)

[show me state]

In hindsight, President Nixon was correct in passing over Mark Felt for the position of FBI Director. For that we owe Nixon and his men a debt of gratitude, because if there is something worse than a corrupt politician, it is a corrupt bureaucrat with a badge and arrest powers.

Not a hero, just a corrupt bureaucrat.

[marty60]

Obviously Nixon knew the man should NEVER be trusted with the top FBI job.

[Tallguy]

...that Felt was all but passing out official FBI FD-302’s, which are reports of interrogations with key witnesses in the Watergate case.

I know we only have Woodward's word on this, but wasn't Deep Throat 'confirming' evidence that had already been gotten from 'other sources'. If this was true, "Handing out FD-302's" is a bit over-the-top (at least until more info comes to light).

[Grampa Dave]

Gary Aldrich has some good insight to Feltgate.