DEEP THROAT WAS PARDONED BY REAGAN!!!

[matcom]

i never knew this

http://boomantribune.com/story/2005/5/31/114735/103

[deadparrot]

1. Don't post that on FR.

:)

[HEyHEY]

2. Fuck that - I say we all post it

[deadparrot]

5. Well, even though it would be deleted within seconds...

the responses would certainly be interesting. ;)

[matcom]

6. i don't have an account

SOMEONE here has to!

[WLKjr]

7. will do that

:D

[matcom]

8. post the link will you?

PLEASE???

[WLKjr]

9. hang on

[Fleshdancer]

13. is it up yet??

this is going to be hilarious

[CottonBear]

14. Oh, thank you! I can't wait to see the link

and watch a
Freeper
MELTDOWN!

Bwahahahahahahaha!

[paula777]

3. Wow, pardoned for authorizing FBI to break into protesters offices

This guys a one-note criminal

[Joanne98]

4. OMG! Maybe it was a coup....

[Media_Lies_Daily]

21. Think who controlled the Executive Branch when General Al Haig was...

...the White House Chief of Staff and the briefcase carrying the nuclear codes no longer followed Nixon.

[Joanne98]

23. The Ford Administration is worth looking at again!

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB142/

There's a picture of Ford, Cheney and Rumfield. Did you know Ford vetoed 50 bills?

[Solly Mack]

10. and which got more attention from the people? Watergate or Cointelpro?

I'm just saying...

[Hissyspit]

11. CoIntelPro!

Only two FBI officers were ever convicted for the numerous crimes carried out under the CoIntelPro program. One of them was W. Mark Felt. Ronald Reagan pardoned him.
That's right! The Great Communicator PARDONED Deep Throat.

Update <2005-5-31 13:54:38 by BooMan>:Ronald Reagan's Presidential Pardons

- snip -

W. Mark Felt- Clemency for authorizing FBI agents to break into Vietnam protestors' offices without warrants.

[JDPriestly]

12. How far we have come.

W. Mark Felt- Clemency for authorizing FBI agents to break into Vietnam protestors' offices without warrants.

What he did is perfectly legal today under the Patriot Act, isn't it? Progress, you say? For some, certainly.

[sasquatch]

15. I've got a better nickname for Feltz: Crooked Mile

Because he does bad and then does something else that's good so he's even.

[matcom]

16. kick

:kick:

[Fleshdancer]

17. I'm going over there to see if the link is up. n/t

[Fleshdancer]

18. well I found something, but not a lot of responses:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413997/posts

[Roland99]

30. "Damn, I wish it had been Carter or Clinton who pardoned him."

heh heh

[Fridays Child]

19. Fr**per link

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413997/posts

[Thrasybulus]

20. Does It Make Sense...

that someone convicted of spying and breaking and entering without a warrant on war protesters would risk his career over a president doing basically the same thing.

Wouldn't this guy have had to be a lackey of J Edgar Hoover to have been so high up in the hierarchy of the FBI in 1974? Did Nixon pass him over for promotion?

I'm just trying to guage his motivations before granting him hero status. I applaud his exposure of Nixon's corruption but do not accept without questioning his "loyalty and sense of duty."

Why keep silent for so long if he didn't fear retaliation of some sort?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

22. Interesting. All the rightwingers are asking those questions, too.

[Thrasybulus]

27. Yea, but what do they know?

After all, they religiously practice guilt by association.

[Melynn]

25. Allegedly Felt's motivation is that he was passed over for promotion.

when Hoover died. I don't know if that is true but it is plausible. If so then Felt isn't a hero. Just a vindictive, spiteful man. Who, ironically enough, destroyed another vindictive, spiteful man.

[matcom]

24. kick

:kick: for ReyGUN

[matcom]

26. .

[Zen Democrat]

28. Felt was not promoted because Nixon appointed a political operative

named L. Patrick Gray to do his bidding at the FBI. Remember, in All The President's Men, Deep Throat told Woodward that it wasn't the Watergate break-in they were covering up -- it was way beyond that to stuff they couldn't even imagine.

Reagan pardoned Deep Throat -- what delicious irony.

[dancingme]

29. Faux News poll - hero or disgrace to the FBI

vote!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158276,00.html#poll

[Roland99]

32. Hero - 15%......Disgrace - 51%

Awww...poor disgruntled wittle fweepers.

[elehhhhna]

31. 2 sample posts from FR:

Damn, I wish it had been Carter or Clinton who pardoned him.



14 posted on 05/31/2005 4:05:28 PM PDT by jsbankston
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To: Sonny M
This just cost woodward and bernstein some serious money...
Bwah hah hah hah. Fine by me, especially since I doubt Deep Throat was anything more than a figment of Woodstein's imaginations

[Norquist Nemesis]

33. off topic question

Why do they call him "Woodstein"?

[underpants]

34. WaPo editor Ben Bradlee referred to them as such

Woodward and Bernstein became Woodstein-for brevity I suspect.

[Norquist Nemesis]

35. Thanks!

For a minute, it sounded like an attempt at an ethnic slur.

[elehhhhna]

36. Well, that too. Good catch!