Ex-Boss: Revenge Motivated 'Deep Throat'

AP ^ | 6/26/05 | DOUGLASS K. DANIEL

[Cicero]

Ironic. Gray refused to give Felt a lie detector test, and Nixon pardoned him for his crimes. They shouldn't have been so trusting.

[speedy]

I'm amazed these guys are still alive. Why didn't they interview Gray earlier then? Felt sounds like a sneak of the first order.

[ReadyNow]

"I felt that was degrading to the second-highest official of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and I would not stoop to that," Gray told ABC.

Just another example of the folly in declining to "humiliate."

[Mo1]

FYI

[Tribune7]

I think it was Reagan that provided the pardon.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping and my ping to others following Feltgate.

[Ditter]

I remember years ago wanting to know who deep throat was very badly. Now I don't really care. I wonder if, years from now, when we find out all the details about the murder of Vince Foster if I will feel this detached from it? I hope not.

[CaptainK]

For a man in such a high position Gray was taken for a fool by those closest to him. He certainly lacked intuitive sense.

[bray]

What a piece of human slime! During Watergate I could never figure out what Nixon had really done, and still don't. He covered up for his subordinates is about it. This Felt should have been jailed.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[harpu]

Looks like the right choice was clearly made to replace Hoover.

[TheForceOfOne]

Liberals will take any opportunity to bring down a Republican, right or wrong it doesn't matter or how they manage to achieve it. They were successful against Nixon, failed against Bush.

It will never change until their grip on the MSM has been erased. There is such an extreme bias on their part these days that it is easy to expose now that we have legitimate alternative media outlets to filter out the lies from the truth.

Their grip has been broken and we proved that with the Memo-gate scandal. We may have a difficult time holding them accountable for their lies today but at least the damage has been minimized and their credibility is in tatters.

Circulation and ratings are down across the board for liberal newspapers and TV news. We are winning back what we lost and their desperation is causing them to become even more radical and obvious. This will not doubt accelerate the loss of viewers and readers of liberal media.

[cyncooper]

Gray said that the White House asked several times that Felt be fired and that Nixon himself demanded that Felt undergo a lie-detector test. "I felt that was degrading to the second-highest official of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and I would not stoop to that," Gray told ABC.

Besides, Felt had assured him on several occasions that he was not secretly passing along information to the press, Gray said.

Gray said he trusted Felt completely, even to the point of putting Felt in charge of investigating FBI leaks. But they continued.

"I couldn't stop it because my No. 2 man was the guy that was doing it," he said

Gray admits the leaking was wrong and was in fact investigating it. He brags about resisting pressure from the WH, preening about not stooping to administering a lie detector and saying he trusted Felt completely, and finally saying he "couldn't stop it".

Excuse me, but it appears Nixon had an idea all along of who the leaker was, he was correct, and Gray ought not be bragging about resisting direction that turns out to have been wise and on point.

Sheesh, what kind of bizarro world do these people live in?

[cyncooper]

Reagan gave the pardon.

[cyncooper]

For a man in such a high position Gray was taken for a fool by those closest to him. He certainly lacked intuitive sense.

That is how it appears, yet he seems proud of it!

[digitalman]

You are correct it is a very strange world these people live in. But a necessary world for some to be in, to fend off the harmful intentions of others which would harm a democratic nation.

I saw the interveiw with Gray, he said he did not feel Felt was a snake in the grass, just not loyal to his boss(Gray).

Gray expressed a great dislike for Nixion which continues to this day. Gray admitted he burned papers given to him by the Nixion men,(Colson) and admitted handing over raw FBI files to the Nixion White House. Gray, also expressed dislike for Colson, Ehrlichman, and Dean. Guess, I would too, after hearing statments made by them to President Nixion to let Gray 'blow in the wind".

However, others have stated Gray was not interested in exposing the corruption.

"Colson's secretary, said Hunt was not there at the moment but might be at a public relations firm, Robert F. Bennett, who is now a Republican Senator from Utah,. " I guess it's no secret that Howard was with the CIA, Bennett said blandly."
(Bennett at the time was over the public reations firm)
From MSNBC- "-How Mark Felt became Deep Throat"- Woodward

Where Gray had some courage at was the removal of Howard Berry Godfrey and Steven Christianson. Godfrey entered the FBI after speaking with his LDS Bishop Federal Judge J.Clifford Wallace. Godfrey was expelled from the FBI along with Christianson, also LDS FBI Agent who were going to bomb a political convention. Gray expelled both from the FBI. Godfrey lives in Kanosh, Utah. He was arrested not long ago for putting pipe bombs at his girlfriends home and around the town.

Talk about complex. Let's hope there are some good people with our agency to fend off not only threats from outside our country, but threats from within.

[digitalman]

You are correct it is a very strange world these people live in. But a necessary world for some to be in, to fend off the harmful intentions of others which would harm a democratic nation.

I saw the interveiw with Gray, he said he did not feel Felt was a snake in the grass, just not loyal to his boss(Gray).

Gray expressed a great dislike for Nixion which continues to this day. Gray admitted he burned papers given to him by the Nixion men,(Colson) and admitted handing over raw FBI files to the Nixion White House. Gray, also expressed dislike for Colson, Ehrlichman, and Dean. Guess, I would too, after hearing statments made by them to President Nixion to let Gray 'blow in the wind".

However, others have stated Gray was not interested in exposing the corruption.

"Colson's secretary, said Hunt was not there at the moment but might be at a public relations firm, Robert F. Bennett, who is now a Republican Senator from Utah,. " I guess it's no secret that Howard was with the CIA, Bennett said blandly."
(Bennett at the time was over the public reations firm)
From MSNBC- "-How Mark Felt became Deep Throat"- Woodward

Where Gray had some courage at was the removal of Howard Berry Godfrey and Steven Christianson. Godfrey entered the FBI after speaking with his LDS Bishop Federal Judge J.Clifford Wallace. Godfrey was expelled from the FBI along with Christianson, also LDS FBI Agent who were going to bomb a political convention. Gray expelled both from the FBI. Godfrey lives in Kanosh, Utah. He was arrested not long ago for putting pipe bombs at his girlfriends home and around the town.

Talk about complex. Let's hope there are some good people with our agency to fend off not only threats from outside our country, but threats from within.

[nothingnew]

Sheesh, what kind of bizarro world do these people live in?

White is black/Black is white, Good is Evil/Evil is good, Up is down/Down is up, Right is wrong/Wrong is right....you mean that kind of satanic bizarro world? Lewis Carrol and C.S. Lewis covered it pretty well.

FMCDH(BITS)

[FreedomSurge]

Gray what an idiot.

[FreedomSurge]

Nixon testified on behalf of Felt during the trial.