Hudson County, NJ BUMP for the "G" Man!
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.
Hudson County, NJ BUMP for the "G" Man!
Some might speculate that because Felt was born in Twin Falls, Idaho--a small predominately Mormon town, and that he was once the Agent in Charge of the Salt Lake City office, and that J. Edgar liked Mormons--Felt has a high probability of being a Mormon.
IMHO, if Felt is/was a Mormon, he was more devoted to the religion of big government, and used his superficial externalities of a "Mormon" to impress Hoover merely to advance his own promotion within the FBI.
I've seen this kind of attitude before in the federal enforcement agency where I was employed for a number of years. Some "career minded" zealots would wear their "Mormon" membership on their sleeves only to get the confidence of the other church members, then rat them out to their supervisors with strained conclusions about alleged law violations, if they thought that ratting would advance them within the organization.
RATS with ILLEGAL loot? Say it ain't so!
Lawrence Francis O'Brien (July 7, 1917–September 27, 1990) was an American politician who served as United States Postmaster General, and later as the Commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1975 to 1984. O'Brien, a Massachusetts associate of the Kennedys, served as Postmaster-General under Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, but left that office to serve as campaign manager for Hubert Humphrey in 1968. After the election, O'Brien became Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He retained this position in 1972, at the time of the Watergate burglary of the DNC. During his tenure as Commissioner, O'Brien oversaw the successful merger of the NBA with the American Basketball Association (ABA), negotiated television contracts with CBS and saw game attendance increase drastically. In 1984, the NBA Championship Trophy was renamed as the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy in his honor.
"(N)ow all we need to know is who was Felt's handler."
Funny you should write that... When I saw him standing in the door of his residence, I told Mrs Felis the woman behind him looked like a handler at a dog show.
I know that's not what you meant, but...
You mean there were NO hookers? Cites please.
It was my understanding the "Hookers for Donations" was well established, but buried by the MSM to keep the "Working Class American, Apple Pie" image of the DNC intact.
Yet Felt's moral high-ground was based on what? An illegal, back-stabbing job involving FBI secrets? Again - where do your morals begin and end?
No, because Linda Tripp was not in the FBI with a federal investigation going on--Felt was. He is/was a highly, indignant criminal. What law did Linda Tripp break? Taking advantage of a young intern...?... Oh, no, that wasn't Linda Tripp, either.
If anything, as Ass Director of the FBI, Felt new the laws better than most. He knew what he was doing, and he knew he was breaking the law. That's why he had to wait so many years before he could write his book. Now a good journalist would look to see how and if he profited back then. I doubt we'll be reading about that in the Washington Post
If it's also true as reported that The Leaker also leaked on Agnew then he was a rather chronic law breaker and morally bankrupt.
It seems as though he regularly decided that Republicans were wrong. Having lived through some of the most reprehensible of Democratic leaders whose deeds far outdid anything that Nixon could have produced it is easy to deduce that he was demented at a rather early age.
LOL. But the plot to oust Nixon started with ousting Agnew. That has not been explored yet. Felt and W&B seem to be role players - the whole election was voided. Didn't this bring in Ford and Rockefeller, anyone?
I read in GOP(something) that he had no religious affiliation. Nixon, according to the tapes, believed he was Jewish, GOP said he was "of Irish descent." I'm wondering if he's Irish like John Kerry's Irish.
Liddy knew what he was doing was illegal. He never whined, cried or tried to pretend otherwise. That, gives him more integrity in my eyes than Felt....who had no problem with going around the law until he found a way to scr*w the man who passed him over for the Directors position.
His daughter is a gold digging Pelosi faced opportunist.
When Daddy dies, who will pay to get the work done? Her face job is stretched pretty tight but in a few years she will need another and if Daddy is gone, as he certainly will be, there needs to be some coins. We know fron Nip and Tuck..... plastic surgeons are expensive.
Excellent book by a hardcore American patriot. The segments detailing how he got through prison were absolutely classic.
Have you read Silent Coup?
What NEVER comes out in all this is the aura of the country at the time. Do you suppose Nixon believed in 1972 that he would be winning by a landslide? Hardly. He knew the dems were getting money from Sweden (remember Olaf Palme who later killed himself?) and God-knows-what other sources. Think the DEMS adhered to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971? Think again.
Nixon thought he was fighting an entirely new enemy in this country, and he was quite right. He had exNavy lieutenants meeting clandestinely with our enemies--with both sets of our enemies, lying about American servicemen, lying about American policy. Of course the ends never justify the means, but by God, there are times that the temptation is overwhelming! And such were the times then. Nixon knew he'd lost the media, that the media had lost all honesty. Who would have believed then that Uncle Walter was LYING about Tet?--certainly not millions of trusting American viewers. This is what Nixon was facing.
It's ironic and tragic that he didn't have an inkling of how highly he was respected by the truly vast Silent American Majority. But who was to tell him? Lopsided, leftist pollsters? the Media? None of whom were brought to justice for their treatment of him even before Watergate.
What's pathetic is our oldest child is being inundated by her very liberal teacher with worksheets and lectures berating Republicans as corrupt and evil. Our daughter is not falling for it. However, there are other "skulls full of mush" who could. The teacher has openly said that he teaches in order to shape the minds of his students. Towards the enlightened dark side.
......LOL
.......Felt is a secret 'religious' spy for what religious denomination?
......there is maybe,.....a real 'BIG' story here too?
.....while working under Hoover at the FBI,....what religious denomination did Felt use for 'paper purposes' as a 'cover'?
/Hoover's FBI?
Yes, ages ago. I'll try to find it tomorrow. It's buried somewhere in "Book Mountain".
Uniformed cops at intersections are paid to blow whistles.
FBI agents, at that time, should have been chasing commies.
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