Posted on 06/02/2005 4:53:37 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Conservative radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy, who was sent to jail for his role in the Watergate scandal, said former FBI Deputy Director F. Mark Felt is a "flawed individual" who was pressured to confess his identity as the confidential source known as "Deep Throat" because his family wanted money.
Liddy told the Fox News Channel's John Gibson Wednesday that as a law enforcement officer if Felt had evidence of a crime and the participants of that crime, "he was duty bound to take that to the grand jury."
"That's what he should have done rather than leak it selectively to a single news source," said Liddy. "What he did was wrong, and he knew it was wrong. That's why he did not want to go public," added Liddy.
When asked whether Felt was hypocritical because he was later convicted on an unrelated wiretapping charge after the Watergate scandal, Liddy said it makes Felt "a flawed individual."
"It certainly does not make him a hero. Right now, he's a pitiful, pathetic old man who can hardly stand and whose mind is there sometimes and is not at other times," added Liddy.
"Seriously, while no one "sees" it, Mark Felt coming forward to brag that he was deep throat, is symbolic of the "last gasp" of liberalism in this country -- the only thing thing that the left "accomplished" in the last 30 years. They "got" "Nixon. wow--aren't they proud. Felt was the disgruntled #2 man at the FBI who was passed over for the number one spot. some "patriot."
The left, with only 2 presidential victories in over 40 years (with the deeply weak Carter and irresponsible Clinton), has only Watergate to crow over. Thus, the last moment of glory is now being celebrated. It's a harmless end, thank god, to the failed experiment called liberalism, which has shown itself to be a mistake in history, begun by Franklin Roosevelt. That "mistake" only started getting corrected in 1994 with the "Contract with America."
Liberalism can only say it accomplsihed "civil rights", but that train had already left the station: Kennedy could never have pulled that off (it took a southernor to do it, LBJ). Today, Truman and JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. would be Republicans, caring as they did about personal responsibility and toughness (MLK was way more like Ward Connerly than Jesse Jackson -- he never would have wanted "affirmative action" and would have eschewed the "victim" card the Democrats play with blacks at every election.
So, I hope liberals save and read and re-read their Newsweeks and NY Times over and over RE: Mark Felt, feeling all warm inside -- it's the last moment of glory for an extraordinarily weak, phony and failed philosophy.
Liberalism is toast. (Ya think they know it yet?)
......for the record........what religious denomination was Felt?
Exactly right and well said -
The Left’s desire to make Felt a hero and Linda Tripp a villain magnifies their complete lack of any kind of logic or even consistency, let alone any coherent philosophy. They are just a sorry bunch of destroyers for the sake of destruction alone ~ subject to the same uncontrollable emotions as the jihadist.
Bump Ditto!
Exactly! Another example of Democratic desperation. "Just look at what those Republicans did." I had a dream. The DNC was stuffing Dean in a closet while singing, "I need a hero...." Look in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Deep Throat! We're saved!
Man I'd LOVE to have a beer with G. Gordon, but this is a bit rich -- even for the G-man. He, a former FBI agent, gets nabbed in the Watergate break-in, and Liddy feels he has the moral standing to criticize Mark Felt? Wheew! The mind boggles.
I hope they come to the same pitiful end as well...
Under the circumstances, what reason would Felt have to believe he would not be whacked if he made a federal case of it? What reason did he have to believe he could live with himself had he kept silent? The intrigue and duplicitousness of human nature may know bounds, but they are wide indeed.
Power on one side and public opinion on the other makes for one heckuva rock and a hard place. The moral of the story is: Seek a vocation as janitor, not courier.
Don't know. Was he involved in any religious movements?
Promise keepers? No no.....Christian Identity Movement? No, nothing with identity in it.
Liddy broke into the RAT headquarters looking for lists of hookers. Felt divulged FBI secrets to some Washington Post intern. Where do your morals begin and end?
I'm trying to understand this point, which I've read several times today in different threads. Does this mean thatto be consistent and logical, if we say Felt is a villain, then Tripp is a villain, too?
How all we need to know is who was Felt's handler.
That hooker story is ridiculous.
Perhaps, someday, the truth about the bags of illegal cash donations that Larry O'Brien was handling will come out.
"What he did was wrong, and he knew it was wrong. That's why he did not want to go public," added Liddy.
Liddy was a former FBI agent, a former district attorney, and as a lawyer "an officer of the court". I guess that wasn't enough to make him feel duty bound to report evidence of a crime.
Don't know. Was he involved in any religious movements?
.....Felt was in Hoover's FBI.......he therefore had to claim a religious denomination for his 'cover' to Hoover!!!!!
.....what religious denomination did he use for 'paper' purposes?
/deep-deep-deep throat FBI?
If you find out,....please,....let me know.
Thanks
It was an illegal, black-bag job and Liddy knew it. That's my point. He can't claim the "I was just following orders" defense if he wants moral high-ground.
That would be Hoover, until he died. After that I am confident he answered to few, then bailed a short time later in 73.
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