THE MEN WHO REALLY BROUGHT NIXON DOWN (opportuni$tic Felt and hi$ family ca$h in)

NY POST ^ | June 2, 2005 | EDITORIAL

[Liz]

No sooner had The Washington Post confirmed that Mark Felt, the FBI's former No. 2, was its secret Water gate informant nicknamed "Deep Throat" than the frenzy began. Now it's time for everyone — Felt and his family included — to start cashing in.

Bob Woodward just so happens to have been working on a book about Deep Throat — which is now going to be rushed into print, it was announced yesterday. (Last year, he and Carl Bernstein sold their Watergate papers to the University of Texas-Austin for $5 million.)

And the Felt family admits that the road to their father's decision to come clean about his role — after years of denials — began with their thought that there was money to be made.

According to Vanity Fair, which first disclosed his Watergate role, Felt's daughter Joan complained that "Bob Woodward's going to get all the glory from this, but we could make at least enough money to pay some bills."

So the decision to end the 30-year-old mystery appears to have less to do with history than with scoring quick cash.

Moreover, it turns out that Felt was motivated to help Woodward not so much by a sense of duty than a desire for payback — he'd hoped to succeed J. Edgar Hoover as FBI director and was incensed when he was passed over for L. Patrick Gray, whom he considered a White House pawn.

The same liberals who are now hailing Mark Felt as a principled citizen who did his duty at the risk of his career were far less charitable back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan — in the first such act of his presidency — pardoned Felt, who'd been convicted of approving illegal FBI break-ins during the hunt for radical Weather Underground fugitives.

[Mo1]

"It's all about source material," said David Black, of the David Black Literary Agency. "Did he keep a diary? Were there records? Did he keep audio conversations with Woodward? Hoover was a great record-keeper, right? Was this guy?"

According to Woodward's article today ... Felt was a big admirer of Hoover and wanted to be just like him

I too wonder what records Felt kept back then

[Liz]

Thanks, Cal.

[Calpernia]

bump!

[longtermmemmory]

This Felt character is a text book petty pencil pusher who is the institutional evil in government.

Now imagine the entire state department rank and file is JUST LIKE this type of petty pencil pusher...

then you understand why the state department is sad the USSR died and the USA won the cold war.

[veronica]

This morning I suggested to a liberal I know that Linda Tripp was a hero, if Felt was. You never saw anyone hit the roof so fast. LOL. What a rant I got back in return. :)

[Liz]

So typical of these phoney "tolerant and compassionate" libbers. They say one thing in public---to get elected--- and do another in private.

[AFPhys]

All the more reason to bring charges of treasonous behavior, and the cousins of that, and penalize it whenever it occurs.

[Mo1]

If we move on him, he'll go out and unload everything. He knows everything that's to be known in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything."

Nixon was right

Felt was Hoover's #3 and then #2 man at the FBI

Hoover knew EVERYTHING

[AFPhys]

Felt's illegal leaking of FBI files was due to avarice, not nobility.

Stolen from Southack --- and repeatedly reposting.

[Common Tator]

Woodward was always a Republican. Always

I Agree!!!

Woodward and his fellow Republicans Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, and Ted Kennedy often have lunch together.

[Liz]

Okay by me. Where do we go to file charges? (smirk)

[AFPhys]

That is why Nixon's conversations with several of his advisors come across the way they do. There had to be fear in the WH of the power FBI had wrested. These career bureaucrats still have too much power.

[AFPhys]

I suspect that there will be an admission by the "reporters" that DT was not quite only MF, but not really a "composite character" either - differing from their earlier contentions. They seem to have had several sources, at least one of which seems still unknown.

[AFPhys]

I bet that "liberal" will take a look at themselves after having done the rant, and realize you are right. You will probably never hear about it, but you did a great favor in attempt to salvage that mind.

[AFPhys]

I know. Problem with that, isn't there. Nevertheless, I stand by that statement.

[AFPhys]

LOL...

Some republican friends, eh?

[Black Tooth]

Well this excplains why he was passed over for the position. He had no problem selling out the country.

He was not alone. Most of the bureau's top officials did not like what Nixon did after Hoovers death, many quietly applauded when he went down, and I have little doubt Felt was assisted by others around him.

People do anything for money. From Neil Armstrong's barber selling a lock of his hair for $3,000 to others selling top secret intel for cash and jewels. Look at our own borders. It's all about money. Follow the money.

[Liz]

Nonetheless, you have a lot of people standing shoulder to shoulder with you on that.

[beyond the sea]

Woodward has been a RAT forever. He was rifling through Henry Kissinger's briefcase on trips to the Far East during Vietnam. (if only he were rifling through Sandy Berger's briefs ;-)) Woodward was reporting to the Joint Chiefs behind Nixon's back. Have you read "Silent Coup"?

If I have any of this wrong, let me know.

Look up sleaze in the dictionary, any decent dictionary would have Woodward's picture right there.

[GoLightly]

They try to claim that they exist to serve the public. Instead, they serve themselves. They are elitists & feel it is their obligation to spoon feed the public only the information they want us to know.