A more skeptical look of Deep Throat/Mark Felt's motivations

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: New from DIRELAND: Deep Throat's Crimes--Mark Felt, 
Constitution-shredder
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:07:40 -0400
From: Doug Ireland <direland () nyc rr com>

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




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