Everyone is a-twitter over the revelation that Mark Felt, former #2 guy at the FBI was the mythic "Deep Throat". Lots of figures who fell to earth during Watergate expressed their surprise at Felt's disclosure, John Dean:
"I never thought he was in the loop to have the information," John Dean, counsel in Nixon's White House and the government's top informant in the Watergate investigation, told The Associated Press. "How in the world could Felt have done it alone?"
Dean said he couldn't see how Felt, then in charge of the FBI's day-to-day operations, could have had time to rendezvous with reporters in parking garages and leave clandestine messages to arrange meetings. Perhaps FBI agents helped him, Dean suggested.
But the most interesting quote of all, I think comes from that little Convict who is again enjoying access to the inner-circles, this time by trading on his "conversion". Does this sound like someone who has learned the lesson of humility? Dirty-trickster Charles Colson:
Also surprised was Nixon chief counsel Charles Colson, who worked closely with Felt in the Nixon administration and served prison time in the Watergate scandal.
"He had the trust of America's leaders and to think that he betrayed that trust is hard for me to fathom," Colson told the AP.
So more than thirty years and a prison term later, Colson still does not get that Felt did the right thing exposing Nixon and he went to jail for abusing the trust of the American People and betraying the Republic for his actions in Watergate. IOKIYAR who finds Jesus, I guess.
Preznit Unclean Urine was heard to remark, "Watergate? Dude, it was a great place to crash between blow binges in Georgetown and Alabama".
posted by Jo Fish on 06.01.05 at 11:48 PM
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All these guys trashing Felt sound just like what they are, ex-cons talking about the detective who got them arrested.
