Apparently, Liddy said that Felt was dishonorable. Coming from a thug and criminal conspirator, I find the definition of 'dishonorable' interesting. Buchanan was all over Felt on Hardball. Chris Matthews saved the last word for Ben-Veniste, who was on the Watergate Task Force.
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Richard Ben-Veniste was the chief of the Watergate task force of the Watergate special prosecutor‘s office from 1973 through 1975.
Pat Buchanan, Richard, says that the real villains of Watergate were the ones who caught Nixon.
RICHARD BEN-VENISTE, 9/11 COMMISSION: Well, of course he would. His team lost. It‘s absurd to listen to guys say now tonight that—that Mark Felt was disloyal to Richard Nixon.
Just get your arms around that. The deputy director of the FBI, who provides information that the FBI itself is being corrupted by the president of the United States, the deputy director of CIA sent to the FBI chief to tell...
MATTHEWS: Vernon Walters, right.
BEN-VENISTE: To tell L. Patrick Gray, stop the investigation. You‘re treading on national security interests in Mexico. All bogus. A lie.
And so, all of that, all the efforts to corrupt the CIA and the FBI came to naught when the plot unraveled. They weren‘t the only agencies. There were—the IRS. All of the other abuses which John Mitchell called the White House horrors, all unraveled little by little. But the start of it was Woodward and Bernstein with a lot of help backstage from somebody who knew where to look.
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You have to give G.W. Bush and Rumsfeld credit. They spent yesterday tap-dancing around the hero-villain question. They're smart enough to know a political live wire when they see one.
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