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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And, lost in all of this is the reasons for the
'breakin' to srart with. Felt is a criminal and should be treated as such. For
him from the beginning it was a 'follow the money', and revenge action on his
part. He is not a hero!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PK</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=timlohr@yahoo.com href="mailto:timlohr@yahoo.com">Tim Lohrmann</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 03, 2005 2:43 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Felt's Crimes: Just
fine?</DIV>
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<DIV>So, the opinion of some on the list seems to be that breaking the
law/violating the Constitutional rights of some Americans is just fine as long
as we approve of the political result?</DIV>
<DIV> Fuhgedaboudit, huh?</DIV>
<DIV>Interesting and illuminating!</DIV>
<DIV> TL<BR><BR><B><I>Tim Lohrmann <<A
href="mailto:timlohr@yahoo.com">timlohr@yahoo.com</A>></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<P>Visionaries, Astounding how the Lexis Liberal
press spews unquestioning praise for this Felt character
isn't it? Apparently Felt was bypassed for several promotions with the
Feds. Maybe revenge was his motive for passing info to
Katherine Graham's boys--because he sure had no problem with illegal
break-ins. After all, he was convicted of ordering them
himself. (You can also listen to the interview at the link below--see
especially the section with David Wise.) TL</P>
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<P>Jennifer Dohrn: I Was The Target Of Illegal FBI Break-Ins
Ordered by Mark Felt aka "Deep Throat"</P>
<P>Mark Felt -- who was exposed this week as Deep Throat -- was
one of only two FBI officials ever to be convicted for ordering
COINTELPRO operations. In 1980 he was convicted for ordering FBI
agents to break into the home of Dohrn and other associates of
the Weather Underground. He was later pardoned by President
Reagan. Jennifer Dohrn discusses the FBI surveillance, break-ins
and a secret FBI proposal to kidnap her infant. Democracy Now!
co-host Juan Gonzalez also reveals that as a leader of the Young
Lords that he, too, was also a target of a similar FBI campaign.
[includes <A
href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/02/1445253#transcript">rush
transcript</A> - partial]</P>
<P>On Tuesday the family of Mark Felt publicly said they hoped
history would view him as hero for being Deep Throat.</P>
<P>But not everyone is praising Felt. A group of former Nixon
aides are criticizing him for betraying the Nixon
administration.</P>
<P>Former Nixon advisor Pat Buchanan says Felt was "corrupt" for
revealing White House secrets.</P>
<P>G. Gordon Liddy also criticized Felt. Liddy organized the
break-in of the Democratic National Campaign headquarters in the
Watergate complex. Liddy said:</P>
<P>"He's certainly not a hero because a law enforcement official
who obtains knowledge of a commission of a crime, has the
evidence of it and who did it and so forth, is ethically obliged
to go to a grand jury, bring his evidence and so forth, so an
indictment can be obtained and justice can be done. He didn't do
that. Instead, he selectively leaked it to a single news
source."</P>
<P>That was G.Gordon Liddy. Liddy himself was convicted
conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping in connection to
Watergate. He served four and a half years in prison before
having his 20 year sentence commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
</P>
<P>While Felt's name will forever now be linked to helping
expose the Watergate scandal, he is also connected to another
dark moment in U.S. history -- the FBI's counter intelligence
program known as COINTELPRO.</P>
<P>Under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI carried out
an extensive campaign of surveillance and neutralization of
political groups including the Black Panthers, American Indian
Movement, the Young Lords, and Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
</P>
<P>In 1980, Mark Felt -- along with Edward Miller -- became the
highest ranking FBI officials to be convicted of criminal
charges since Hoover became head of the agency in 1924.</P>
<P>The two officials were convicted by a jury of conspiring to
violate the constitutional rights of American citizens for
ordering FBI agents to secretly break into the homes of friends
and relatives of the militant anti-war group The Weather
Underground.</P>
<P>In September 1980, government prosecutors said in court that
Felt's actions were a "violation of the rights of all people of
this country, violations that cannot and will not be tolerated
as long as we have a Bill of Rights." </P>
<P>Felt and Miller were later pardoned by President Ronald
Reagan who credited them for bringing a "end to the terrorism
that was threatening our nation." In 1983 a federal judge
ordered that Felt and Millers' criminal record be swept clean.
Felt and Miller were the only FBI officials convicted in
connection to COINTELPRO.</P>
<P>Felt never denied the the break-ins but argues they were done
in the name of national security. He claimed that the Weather
Underground had extensive ties to foreign powers and that
break-ins were part of a foreign intelligence investigation.</P>
<P>We are joined now in our studio by Jennifer Dohrn who was the
target of FBI break-ins ordered by Felt. Her sister, Bernadine
Dorhn, was a a founder of the Weather Underground and was on the
run from the federal government during the 1970s. Government
documents show that FBI agents repeatedly broke into Jennifer's
home. In 1978 she filed a civil suit against Felt and Miller.
The suit was settled in 1983 out-of-court.</P>
<UL>
<LI>Jennifer Dohrn, sister of Weather Underground member
Bernadine Dohrn. Jennifer sued Mark Felt after it was revealed
that he ordered FBI agents to secretly break-in to her home as
well as other associates of the Weather Underground. </LI></UL>
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<P>Investigative Journalist David Wise on the Significance of
Watergate, Anonymous Sources and the Tug-of-War Between Civil
Liberties and National Security</P>
<P>In 1981 Wise criticized President Reagan's pardon of Mark
Felt for ordering FBI agents to conduct secret break-ins. Wise
said the pardon sent a "clear message to the intelligence
agencies: The President of the United States approves of
Government burglaries." </P>
<P>We are joined now by investigative journalist David Wise. He
is the coauthor of The Invisible Government, a number one
bestseller about the CIA. He is also the author of Nightmover,
Molehunt, The Spy Who Got Away, The American Police State, and
The Politics of Lying.</P>
<P>In 1981 he wrote a column in the New York Times criticizing
President Reagan for pardoning Mark Felt the man who we now
know was Deep Throat. </P>
<P>Wise began his column by writing: President Reagan's pardon
of two high Federal Bureau of Investigation officials who were
convicted of authorizing illegal break-ins sends a clear message
to the intelligence agencies: The President of the United States
approves of Government burglaries.</P>
<P>One can visualize the intelligence operators" breaking out
the champagne at F.B.I. headquarters in the J. Edgar Hoover
Building and across the river at the Central Intelligence
Agency, in Langley, Va. ?The meaning of Mr. Reagan's action was
immediately grasped by W. Mark Felt, one of the pardoned F.B.I.
officials: "This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for
the intelligence community for a long time. ?We are joined now
by David Wise in our Washington studio. </P>
<UL>
<LI>David Wise, the coauthor of The Invisible Government, a
number one bestseller about the CIA. He is also the author of
Nightmover, Molehunt, The Spy Who Got Away, The American
Police State, and The Politics of Lying. David is also the
former chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Herald
Tribune </LI></UL>
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