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

[Tom Hansen]

It is VERY SIMPLE.

W. Mark Felt blew the whistle on the Nixon administration who were complicit
in the commission of a felony. PERIOD.

Felt, himself, did violate the law when he ordered FBI agents to break into
houses of members of the Weather Underground without warrants.  For this he
was tried and convicted.

Apparently what Ms. Kraut and Mr. Nesbit are suggesting is that many of us
have been raising our children with the wrong values.  

If your children have ever committed a wrong, they have absolutely no right
to report violations committed by other people.  Is this the standard that
we wish to set for out children?

And Ms. Kraut's suggestion that the Felt's family desire to write a book
about it is wrong?  That dog don't bark, Ms. Kraut.  Are you suggesting that
FBI Special Agent Mark Felt relayed Watergate information to the Washington
Post simply because he foresaw a major book deal 30+ years down the road?
How many other books (several) and movies ("All the President's Men" comes
to mind) were created with direct links to Watergate?

Perhaps Mr. Felt did not report his information directly to a grand jury
because the cover-up was an ongoing thing.  Do you really believe that if
Felt had reported it to a grand jury that he (Felt) would still have been
privy to information.  NO.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box.