On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:21:02 +0000, Percival Cornelius wrote:
> IF, IN LIFE'S LEDGER, WINS WERE A W. MARK AND LOSSES WERE AN L. MARK, THE
> DECISION BY THIS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION
> ABOUT THE WATERGATE BURGLARIES TO REPORTERS BOB WOODWARD AND CARL
> BERNSTEIN WOULD BE A "W. MARK FELT" AROUND THE WORLD FOR YEARS.
Nixon & Co.'s discussions of him (on tape) are hilarious; they knew who
"Deep Throat" was, although not "Woodstein's" code-name for him, having
been tipped by a _Post_ lawyer (an ex-DOJ man himself) shocked that a high
FBI official would be leaking to the press about an ongoing investigation,
and one possibly involving the Presidency at that (see the
highly-entertaining transcript-collection _Abuse of Power_) . . . .
He got a lot of stuff wrong, as you would expect, from a complex
conspiracy investigation which was mostly grand-jury-driven, and which
never was successfully investigated, even in the second round of Watergate
trials that ended up with a number of prominent White House officials
going to jail, as well as Attorney-General Mitchell, since the star
witness for the prosecution was White House Counsel John Dean, who was
perhaps the major player in what central conspiracy there was (during the
cover-up after the Watergate break-in), and one-a the biggest liars in the
Nixon White House, which is really saying something (his memoir _Blind
Ambition_ needs to be taken with heavy doses of salt).
And, anyway, Dean as White House Counsel requested on authority of the
President and was allowed to see FBI reports as they came in during the
original major investigation by the FBI itself, and likewise requested and
was given briefings on the grand-jury proceedings from the DOJ chief of
criminal prosecutions, Henry Peterson (who was however not one of the
actual prosecutors), so Dean was undoubtedly better posted than Felt was
even on the guvment's own knowledge of the matter . . . .
I love how Dean and Kissinger, two of the four biggest contenders for
Biggest Liar in the Nixon White House (along with Nixon and Colson), are
treated as elder statesmen by the press, especially the "teevee
n00z channelz", nowadays . . . .
Ah, America.
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tinmimus99@hotmail.com
smeeter 11 or maybe 12
mp 10
mhm 29x13
We feel America went off the track politically
sometime in August of 1776.
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