Deep Throat Gives No Pleasure

The Associated Press reports on the latest irony in the story of Mark "Deep Throat" Felt:

When Felt was on trial for authorizing illegal break-ins during the 1970s at homes of people associated with the radical Weather Underground, Nixon testified on his behalf. 
And after Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981, he received a bottle of champagne and this brief note from the disgraced former president: "Justice ultimately prevails."[OY! Is Nixon spinning or what? Tricky Dick wasn't nearly as tricky as this cad]

If Congress is going to pass a resolution honoring Felt for blowing the whistle on Nixon, why not make it bipartisan and also honor Clinton administration whistle blower Linda Tripp? As David Schippers, the Democratic lawyer who served as the House Judiciary Committee's chief investigator during the Clinton impeachment inquiry, tells the Chicago Tribune's John Kass, "If he's a hero, and he is, then she's a hero. They're both heroes."

Taranto Wall Street Journal

Comments

[RG]

Slightly off topic but I just found out that Newsweek is much easier to flush.

[Hugh]

Felt was just an angry bureaucrat trying to put pressure on his superiors so he could get the top job. If his intentions had been truly noble, he would have taken his concerns to Congress or to the Grand Jury.

Question: was Felt an attorney? Maybe this is irrelevant. I am not an expert on Watergate and Deep Throat, but the recent commentaries suggest that Woodward and Bernstein were given grand jury materials. That is illegal. I use to be a prosecutor (for a brief stint) and leaking grand jury material to the public is a MAJOR wrong!

One of my conservative friends is of the opinion that Nixon got what he deserved; if his administration committed crimes, it should have been punished. However, Nixon's actions were consistant with those of all of his predecessors during 20th Century. The liberals changed the rules when they went after Nixon, and we are still paying the price.

If only Kennedy had not stolen the 1960 election....sigh.

[elvis]

It was never even suggested that Nixon had anything to do with the Watergate break-in itself. However the coverup was worse than the Lewinsky, er the Clinton Affair. But it makes me wonder why it's coming up now. If it's the LLL media spin on election politics then I refer all to alamo-girl for an in depth look at the high treason, high crimes, abuse of power, criminal enterprise, obsrtruction, and breach of trust et al of the Clintons'.