Posted on 06/12/2005 3:43:13 PM PDT by MRMEAN
The news that W. Mark Felt, former deputy director of the FBI, is "Deep Throat" -- that it was he who played a key role in exposing and bringing to justice the people who authorized the 1972 Watergate break-in -- came as an unexpected revelation to many. But it was particularly unexpected for me, because, together with others, I prosecuted Mark Felt for a series of illegal and unconstitutional break-ins that he had authorized.
In late 1972 and early 1973, during the same period when he was investigating the Watergate break-in, Felt authorized FBI agents in New York and New Jersey to break into and search the homes of friends or relatives of fugitives associated with the Weather Underground, a radical, violent antiwar organization. These friends and relatives were innocent of any wrongdoing. There was no probable cause to conduct the searches. There was no search warrant authorizing them. And they were clearly illegal.
With Felt's authorization, teams of agents clad in old clothes picked locks or bribed landlords and searched these people's homes. They searched thoroughly: desks, beds, closets, etc. Using a document camera, they photographed a diary, a love letter, a Valentine's Day card, statements of personal philosophy and other documents. When they were done, they put everything back in place so that no one would know they had been there.
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Interesting.
Like I said before, Felt is a jacka@@. Glad to see he was caught doing what all of Washington does. He would have better off just shutting up and taking his crap to the grave with him like most real heroes do, if you can call a whistle blower a hero. My feelings is what is a chain of command for. He should, if anything, went up the chain respecting the oath of office he took. I think him more of a coward than anything.
bookmark
He can die now, the world knows a president was defeated by the left, not by the validity of their beliefs, but by a less than honorable man and his stenographers
In the early seventies, and maybe at other times, the FBI had a policy of breaking in, stealing records and damaging facilities of "enemies" of their supreme being, Hoover. I was at a city council meeting when a woman from some group like the Socialist Workers Party appealed for police protection from the FBI. The council and we in the audience ridiculed her and laughed her out of the room. Years later we found out that she was completely correct. What happened to those criminals in the FBI? They were considered heroes, got promoted and retired.
Well said hp
Immediately upon his death, Hoover's secretary for five decades, Helen W. Gandy, began destroying his files with the approval of Felt and Gray. She turned over twelve boxes of the "Official/Confidential" file to Felt on May 4, 1972. This consisted of 167 files and 17,750 pages, many of them containing derogatory information. Felt stored them in his office and Gray told the press that afternoon that "there are no dossiers or secret files. There are just general files and I took steps to preserve their integrity." Felt earlier that day had told Gray, "Mr. Gray, the Bureau doesn't have any secret files" and to prove it had taken Gray to Hoover's office. They found Gandy boxing up papers. Felt said Gray "looked casually at an open file drawer and approved her work", though Gray would later deny he looked at any thing. Gandy retained Hoover's "Personal File" and destroyed it. When Felt was called to testify in 1975 by the U.S. House about the destruction of Hoover's papers, he said "There's no serious problems if we lose some papers. I don't see anything wrong and I still don't."
Felt had the crown jewels just like Hillary and the FBI files. Who woulda thunk it.
More about Felt's daughter and possible money motive:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1421518/posts
The man is 91 years old. It sounds like his cheap daughter had a hand in this.
> Felt had the crown jewels just like Hillary and the FBI files.
He did, but he flushed them down the toilet. You couldn't just burn them jewels onto a cd and quietly exit with them back then.
Even if Hoover's files are lost, I bet Felt passed on a string or two of pearls to Crown Princess Joan. Can you say, book deal?
Democrats found a patsy in Nixon to deflect their starting of a war on a scale that brought in over fifty thousand (50,000) deaths.
When body bags mounted from mole hills into mountains, Democrats did what they do best: Run away.
Nixon for a low level break in, instead of letting these culprits go, entangled himself in denials.
Nixon up to this day in people's minds started this war and is guilty for the 50,000.
History is written by repetitions.
Thanks for posting this.
Republicans should be shouting, printing and posting the following for the next 3 decades:
"In late 1972 and early 1973, during the same period when he was investigating the Watergate break-in, Felt authorized FBI agents in New York and New Jersey to break into and search the homes of friends or relatives of fugitives associated with the Weather Underground, a radical, violent antiwar organization. These friends and relatives were innocent of any wrongdoing. There was no probable cause to conduct the searches. There was no search warrant authorizing them. And they were clearly illegal."
"With Felt's authorization, teams of agents clad in old clothes picked locks or bribed landlords and searched these people's homes. They searched thoroughly: desks, beds, closets, etc. Using a document camera, they photographed a diary, a love letter, a Valentine's Day card, statements of personal philosophy and other documents. When they were done, they put everything back in place so that no one would know they had been there."
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