Ex-Boss: Revenge Motivated 'Deep Throat'

L. Patrick Gray, the FBI chief during the Watergate break-in, says he believes deputy W. Mark Felt became the anonymous source known as Deep Throat because he was angry at being passed over as J. Edgar Hoover's successor and wanted to sabotage Gray.

"I think there was a sense of revenge in his heart, and a sense of dumping my candidacy, if you will," Gray told ABC's "This Week" during an interview for its Sunday broadcast.

The Left and their water carrying minions in the lamestream media hoped to resurrect Watergate with this story and to their chagrin it totally fell apart on them as stories continually circulated attributing other then honorable motives to this man.

Of course the fact Felt himself was arrested and indicted for illegal entry didn't help the case either.

I find it soooo gratifying that with the www the lib media has become hamstrung to a great degree. This is part of what is causing the libs to become unglued. Their entire game plan has been pre emted.

Gray was asked why Felt would have believed he could not have gone to Gray instead of the press with his concern that the Nixon White House was trying to thwart the FBI's investigation.

Whistleblowers go to the press all the time with their complaints about society's institutions. It's not a perfect solution but the framers felt it was damn good...and history has concurred.

Iit 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.

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