Mark Felt
Is a hero.
Who was he going to report corruption to: the FBI director who threw documents over bridge into the Potomac or the AG who was in on the conspiracy. Look at thow the Bush Administration treats its own whistleblowers, Paul O'Neill and Richard Clarke. They are villified and dismissed as liars for pointing out or disagreeing with the president.
And then Karl Rove puts the right wing attack media to work to savage their reputations. Where are the Mark Felt's of this administration?
We get the Government we deserve.
Who was he going to report corruption to: the FBI director who threw documents over bridge into the Potomac or the AG who was in on the conspiracy. Look at thow the Bush Administration treats its own whistleblowers, Paul O'Neill and Richard Clarke. They are villified and dismissed as liars for pointing out or disagreeing with the president.
And then Karl Rove puts the right wing attack media to work to savage their reputations. Where are the Mark Felt's of this administration?
We get the Government we deserve.
posted by Dan Chmielewski at 10:35 AM
3 Comments:
Congress. He could have gone to Congress. It was firmly in the hands of the democrats and they were itching to take down the man who created the Environmental Protection Agency.
Playing my own's Devils Advocate here, that would have ended his career in the FBI. Something Felt did to himself anyway when he got caught running black bag operations.
The same Congress that Nixon defied? What about the Supreme Court, whom Nixon also defied.
The guy may have had a personal grudge, but all he did was confirm stuff Woodstein had already.
Nixon turned over the tapes when the Supremes said he had to. His stonewalling didn't slow down the the House for calling for Impeachment Hearings.
Nixon made his bed when he got up to his elbows in the coverup. Felt did what he felt he had to, for reasons only he knows and can't clearly express anymore.
As you pointed out he, was only supplying collabrating data.
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