[Vision2020] W. Mark Felt, hero or heel?

[Tom Hansen]

I agree with you, Joan.

Mr. Felt blew the whistle on a felony perpetrated by the Nixon
administration.  For that he should be applauded, regardless of any motives
any of us associate with that act.  Mr. Felt revealed to the American people
the deceit of the Nixon administration.

Yes.  Mr. Felt was convicted in 1980 on charges he ordered FBI agents to
break into homes without search warrants in a hunt for bombing suspects in
1972 and 1973 during an investigation of the radical group Weather
Underground.  President Reagan pardoned him in 1981.

Thoughts?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil
and steady dedication of a lifetime." 
 
--Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.