A more skeptical look of Deep Throat/Mark Felt's motivations
Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: New from DIRELAND: Deep Throat's Crimes--Mark Felt, Constitution-shredder Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:07:40 -0400 From: Doug Ireland <[email protected]> New from DIRELAND, June 8, 2005 DEEP THROAT'S CRIMES -- MARK FELT, SERIAL CONSTITUTION-SHREDDER After Mark Felt outed himself as the legendary “Deep Throat” in the Watergate case last week, there was a media rush to canonize the FBI’s former Number Two man, and politicians proposed he be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But in all this gush to make Felt a hero, there has been little or no mention of Felt’s prime role in COINTELPRO -- the most gigantic domestic political spying and disruption operation ever in American history, illegally conducted by the FBI. to make a hero out of Felt -- the serial Constitution-shredder and convicted criminal -- strikes me as a chapter in the book of laughter and forgetting... To read the details of Felt's crimes, click on: http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/06/deep_throats_cr.html _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)