A Felt Evil

Hard Right ^ | June 1, 2005 | Thomas Fleming

[TradicalRC]

Nixon's crimes were penny ante, even when compared to the dirty tricks routinely played on him by Democratic pranksters, and no break-in or cover-up can be compared with the Kennedys’s\ naked theft of the presidency in 1960. That Nixon, not Kennedy should go down in history as a great presidential criminal is a tribute to the dishonest mythomania of the media...

To concoct an impeachment charge out of the “burglars’” antics showed the depths of immorality to which the Democratic Party had sunk. I respected Sam Ervine, chairman of the Senate committee, who had consistently opposed every increase of federal power, whether in the form of "civil rights" legislation or of Attorney General John Mitchell's first steps toward the Patriot Act. But even Senator Sam, who sincerely detested the Nixon administration, advised his colleagues to moderate their sanctimonious rhetoric, telling them that they were none of them statesmen but only politicians with their own skeletons in the closet.

What Mr. Felt's motives were in betraying his President, I shall never know. He says that he, like many FBI agents, was appalled by the President's abuse of power and misuse of the FBI. If that is so, why did he not protest similar abuses committed by Kennedy and Johnson? And why did he not refuse to implement an order to perform apparently illegal surveillance on antiwar groups-an operation that earned him a conviction for which he had to be pardoned by Ronald Reagan? I do not know that we should believe anything that Mr. Felt says. After all, he categorically denied, in a memoir published in 1979, that he ever "leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or to anyone else." If he was lying about the fact in 1979, why believe that he is not lying about the motive today?

[TradicalRC]

Good points made by Mr. Fleming.

[Albion Wilde]

BUMP

[Verginius Rufus]

Is this the same Thomas Fleming, the writer, who was on C-SPAN yesterday discussing his latest book, Mysteries of My Father?

[RoseofTexas]

I still say that God will have the last word! Felt's betrayal to the president and his country by using one of the most powerful establishments, the FBI, to bring down president Nixon and the EVIL rags hammering him even to this day without MERCY, is beyond words. When Bubba committed adutery in our HOME, the media kept shying away from this most betrayal to the American folk. But, God will have the last say! Sure Felt's family will soon lined their pockets with blood money, while Woodward and the rest of the coward cronies have made millions from Felt...the last chapter has NOT been written yet...God is still holding the pen! The Nixon family have shown such grace under fire for many, many countless years, and their reward along with God's vengeance in behalf of the Nixon family, will soon be at hand. For that I am grateful that they have kept silence during these nightmarish years! For fools will have their just rewards, while the humble will be exalted!

[Luke21]

Thank you, Rose. You said it so much better than I could.

[ex-snook]

The voters who voted for Nixon-Agnew in a 49 State majority were deprived of their policy choice. The only good Felt can do now is to disclose his handlers because to think he acted alone is too much of a stretch. Felt did it 'because he was mad at Nixon' doesn't cut it.

It is easy to overlook that the coup to oust Nixon had first to oust Agnew so he would not succeed. And Woodward and Bernstein were quite handy and available. And the unelected Rockefeller Republicans, Ford and Rockefeller [himself] were the successors. "too much plannin goin on out thar' But then again, maybe I just don't trust RINOs.

[maestro]

..... I do not know that we should believe anything that Mr. Felt says......

.....Amen!!!!!

.....What religious denomination did Felt claim while serving UNDER the DIRECTOR?

.....should be very enlightening as to who Felt really was 'working for'....

....what about that?

....there is NO coverup here.....move on

/sarcasm

[Regulator]

And dead on. Voting in the graveyards of Chicago and Dallas was rather rampant in 1960.

Nixon stood aside and decided not to take the country down the path that Baby Gore did in 2000. He knew politics was a contact sport, and he was no whiner. He decided the country's interest's were better served if he came back to fight another day, without looking petty.

All of that went down under the approving eyes of the filth in the press, who knew exactly what had actually happened, and continued being sycophants for the Democrats and especially the Kennedys.

[nopardons]

BRAVA!

[maestro]

......... Voting in the graveyards of Chicago and Dallas was rather rampant in 1960........

....Impossible!

/Ward Churchill's 'DNA' and Boulder......

[leadpenny]

On C-SPAN now:

Broadcast
W. Mark Felt Interview
CBS, Face the Nation
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 187059 - 08/30/1976 - 0:23 - NS



Felt, W. Mark, Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation




In 1976 Mark Felt was interviewed on the CBS news program “Face the Nation” about his involvement in illegal Federal Bureau of Investigation break-ins of anti-war protesters during an investigation of the radical group the Weather Underground. He was convicted for his role in the affair and later pardoned by President Reagan.

This interview was shown days after revelations that he was the source known only as “Deep Throat” for Washington Post stories on the Watergate break-in and corruption within the Nixon administration.

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

No one, Nixon or Clinton is all bad or all good. Clinton violated the law and was impeached, Nixon tried to protect friends and resigned. Either way, I am glad something was done about evil and hopefully will keep the politicians somewhat honest. We need more, not fewer prosecutions for illegal activity by the politicians.

[Malesherbes]

I think Rush said it best. All this commotion is simply "dinosaurs celebrating the Jurassic Age."

[Spirited]

It shall be so.

[TradicalRC]

I don't think so. I know of at least one other Thomas Fleming that is a writer of note.