Actually, President Clinton would have been more apposite, but this was MSNBC.

Indeed. The only real difference between Clinton and Nixon was that when he got caught, Nixon resigned.

The guy on MSNBC who does Countdown ran right to President Richard Nixon in evaluating a Blago speech. The infamous ” I am not a crook..” talk was recalled. A big favorite among the pseudointellectuals on MSNBC, I am sure. The sophormoric review was approved by a guest toady. Then I changed the channel.

A crook steals. The horrible host never checked to see if President Nixon’s problem was theft or some other crime. Like “Obstruction of Justice”. And at least President Nixonhad the grace to resign while Democratic Governor Blagojevich fights on. Did a Democratic President do that?

Actually, President Clinton would have been more apposite, but this was MSNBC.

“The Attorney General in the new Carter administration, Griffin B. Bell, investigated, and on April 10, 1978, a federal grand jury charged Felt, Miller and Gray with conspiracy to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens by searching their homes without warrants, though Gray’s case did not go to trial and was dropped by the government for lack of evidence on December 11, 1980”

“I think this is justified and I’d do it again tomorrow”, he said on the program. While admitting the break-ins were “extralegal”, he justified it as protecting the “greater good”. Felt said: ( Felt AKA Deep throat)

To not take action against these people and know of a bombing in advance would simply be to stick your fingers in your ears and protect your eardrums when the explosion went off and then start the investigation.

The Attorney General in the new Carter administration, Griffin B. Bell, investigated, and on April 10, 1978, a federal grand jury charged Felt, Miller and Gray with conspiracy to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens by searching their homes without warrants, though Gray’s case did not go to trial and was dropped by the government for lack of evidence on December 11, 1980.

“the case against Felt and Miller went to trial in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on September 18, 1980.

On October 29, former President Richard M. Nixon appeared as a rebuttal witness for the defense, and testified that presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt had authorized the bureau to engage in break-ins while conducting foreign intelligence and counterespionage investigations.”

Yep, Nixon testified in support of Felt!

“It was Nixon’s first courtroom appearance since his resignation in 1974. Nixon also contributed money to Felt’s legal defense fund, Felt’s expenses running over $600,000.”

And Nixon contributed to Felt’s defense!

Oh one more than, (although not directly linked to this story) EVERY living former AG testified that what the FBI did to get the Weather Underground Organization” (WUO), was legal cuz the WUG had declared war against the USA AND had already bombed many sights.

In other words the “ticking time bomb” scenario.

ONLY Carter’s AG claimed it to be illegal, and THAT is the reason Dirt bags like Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorn are not rotting in prison TODAY!

Also testifying were former Attorneys
General Herbert Brownell, Jr.,
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach,
Ramsey Clark,
John N. Mitchell, and
Richard G. Kleindienst,
all of whom said warrantless searches in national security matters were commonplace and not understood to be illegal, but Mitchell and Kleindienst denied they had authorized any of the break-ins at issue in the trial.

All this for some passed over smirking Jew who didn’t get the job he was “entitled” to. Bury the scum in a land fill.

Nixon got the last laugh. Turns out Soviet Documents proved Hiss was a commie. Nixon also eliminated the draft and the leftos haven’t been able to put together a decent protest since.

Who is Mark Felt?

Vince on December 19, 2008 at 2:26 PM

The question that will never be answered in a public school. As far as High School US history is concerned – the time period from Kennedy’s death to Carter’s Presidency is characterized as a disgraceful blotch. Vietnam, recession, rise of the commies, and of course Watergate, is all Nixon’s fault. Ironic isn’t it, Felt’s actions cause Ayers to go free to do the most effective bombing – bombing the minds of public school children.

Branch Rickey on December 19, 2008 at 2:37 PM

Thanks, B.R. :)

factoid on December 19, 2008 at 2:33 PM

You must just be the life of any party.

Ayers may have walked free, but innocent people didn’t die in the crimes he was stopped from committing.

BillyRuffn on December 19, 2008 at 2:09 PM

Um, you might want to try and lay the kool-aid cough syrup. Just a suggestion

What America really needed was a Deep Throat in the Clinton White House. If Clinton had pulled a scheme exactly like Watergate, he would have gotten away with it. He got away with enough as it is.

whitetop on December 19, 2008 at 1:57 PM

Are you serious or is this just a softball waiting for someone to hit out of the park…or…have you never heard of Monica?

sabbott on December 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM

Mazel Tov

factoid on December 19, 2008 at 2:33 PM

All of those that you named are Heros to FREEDOM. You may not like the methods that they used but screw you!!!! Have fun at the Che party.

factoid on December 19, 2008 at 2:33 PM

…I see…you’ve a keen interest in presidential criminality….

…so long as the subject in focus is of the “correct” party….

…adultery is, after all, a private matter…and who doesn’t lie about adultery….

Reporting this to the FBI would have resulted in a cover-up and no real punishments doled out to anybody.

Business as usual isn’t the best course of action!

angelat0763 on December 19, 2008 at 11:56 AM

Wow, you have some good inside sources! Do you know anything about Rahm and Blago? Or is that “business as usual” I am totally confused.

YOU TUNING SPORK People seem to forget that we do have channels for whistleblowers that don’t go through the editorial offices of the Washington Post and New York Times.
Ed,
Felt couldn’t reveal what he knew by feigning an internal investigation because what he knew he got from illegally wiretapping Nixon’s phones at Key Biscayne.
Sure, he could present all of the evidence he had to a court. But, when the judge asks him how he got it, he could only incriminate himself.
Anonymity and the parking garage was the only avenue available to him
Tuning Spork on December 19, 2008 at 11:24 AM.

SEE BOLD EMPHASIS BELOW;
TUNING FORK I FIXED IT FOR YOU, DUDE.

It’s funny how some here are showing a double standard to Nixon FELT. Just admit he was corrupt and move on, why sit here and spin everything.

justinok on December 19, 2008 at 10:59 AM

FROM JUSTNOK

hey factard, I notice clowns like you lost all interest in law abiding presidents after Nixon
jeff_from_mpls on December 19, 2008 at 1:15 PM

Not at all, my friend, I am totally interested in crimes committed by post-Nixon presidents. Like that guy who sold arms to Iran and then used the proceeds to foment civil war in Nicaragua, after Congress expressly forbade doing so. He claimed he was too stupid to notice anything, and some of his men took the blame for him.

John Poindexter, Reagan’s national security advisor, guilty of five criminal counts involving conspiracy to mislead Congress, obstructing congressional inquiries, lying to lawmakers, used “high national security” to mask deceit and wrong-doing…

Richard Secord pleaded guilty to a felony charge of lying to Congress over Iran-Contra. Appointed by William Casey to assist Oliver North.

Elliott Abrams was appointed by President Reagan in 1985 to head the State Department’s Latin American Bureau. He was closely linked with ex-White House aide Lt. Col. Oliver North’s covert movement to aid the Contras. Working for North, Abrams coordinated inter-agency support for the contras and helped solicit illegal funding from foreign powers as well as domestic contributors. Abrams agreed to cooperate with Iran-Contra investigators and pled guilty to two charges reduced to misdemeanors. He was sentenced in 1991 to two years probation and 100 hours of community service but was pardoned by President George Bush.

Robert C. McFarlane, Reagan’s National Security Advisor, pled guilty to four misdemeanors and was sentenced to two years probation and 200 hours of community service. He was also fined $20,000. He received a blanket pardon from President George Bush.

Alan D. Fiers was the Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Central American Task Force. Fiers pled guilty in 1991 to two counts of withholding information from congress about Oliver North’s activities and the diversion of Iran arms sale money to aid the Contras. He was sentenced to one year of probation and 100 hours of community service. Alan Fiers received a blanket pardon for his crimes from President Bush.

Thomas G. Clines: convicted of four counts of tax-related offenses for failing to report income from the operations.

Carl R. Channel – Office of Public Diplomacy , partner in International Business- first person convicted in the Iran/Contra scandal, pleaded guilty of one count of defrauding the United States

11. Richard R. Miller – Partner with Oliver North in IBC, a Office of Public Diplomacy front group, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Clair George was Chief of the CIA’s Division of Covert Operations under President Reagan. George was convicted of lying to two congressional committees in 1986. George faced a maximum five year federal prison sentence and a $20,000 fine for each of the two convictions. Jurors cleared George of five other charges including two counts of lying to a federal grand jury. Clair George received a blanket pardon for his crimes from President George Bush.

Rita Lavelle was indicted, tried and convicted of lying to Congress and served three months of a six-month prison sentence.

Oliver North – He was indicted on sixteen felony counts and on May 4, 1989, he was convicted of three: accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and destruction of documents (by his secretary, Fawn Hall, on his instructions). He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell on July 5, 1989, to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines, and 1,200 hours community service. His conviction was later overturned.

That’s it. All the other bad things that happened later on can be traced to the fact that he was so blinded by his own hate that he did not see the dangers ahead for the nation and the world.

newton on December 19, 2008 at 11:20 AM

Are you talking a about RMN or BHO?

I mean BHO has surrounded himself by that mentality of hate; [uh, hum, "Chicago 8" of the 1968 Convention Misanthropes at best; mentally unstable poseurs at best - History? Anyone? Anyone?] people consumed by their own hate for “____” (fill-in blank) and couple that with his disdain for only one of his own ethnicities and surrounds himself with pro-abortion proponents {history (see: Margaret Sanger – proponent to “clean the American blood of “negro and semitic blood” – “eyebrows raise”) and application (see: Hitler – an “egotistical good speaker who thought he was The Secular Savior of the World“).

Plus, was does it come off that everyone around BHO is perennially pi**ed off at anything and everything?

It’s kind of crying “wolf” rather than righting true wrongs, imho.

–Nah. I think it’s still a crime in Michigan to pick on the handicapped.

–Every attorney general serves at the whim of the President. Remember how Bush replaced several for political reasons during his term? And Obama will have the same rights, which is why people have talked about how the Blago investigation will affect Fitzgerald.

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You conservatives to my mind have a clearly depraved set of morals. It was an impeachable offense for Clinton to have lied about Monica in office, yet it was heroic for Nixon to have targeted his political opponents and lied about it to the world and under oath? Talk about scum……

And it was Felt’s doing the same thing that Nixon did–illegal breakins–that “blew” Ayers’ conviction. It wasn’t Watergate itself.

To not take action against these peples and kinow of a bombing in advance would simbly be to stick your fingers in your ears and ptotect your ear drums when the explosion went off, and then start the investigation.

Sounds not unlike situations we face today — “warrantless wiretaps” or use of “waterboarding” to stop terrorist plots before they unfold, or walking the straight and narrow, letting them kill people and then cleaning up the mess using the criminal justice system.

Ayers may have walked free, but innocent people didn’t die in the crimes he was stopped from committing.

What America really needed was a Deep Throat in the Clinton White House. If Clinton had pulled a scheme exactly like Watergate, he would have gotten away with it. He got away with enough as it is.

whitetop on December 19, 2008 at 1:57 PM

Are you serious or is this just a softball waiting for someone to hit out of the park…or…have you never heard of Monica?