Felt "Thought the Nixon team were Nazis"

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/2/05 at 2:51pm

So says Woodward in today's WaPo. Say what you want about Felt's mixed motives, he saw what was un-American about the Nixon White House and took action.

If only there were someone brave enough to blow the whistle on the creeping fascism in the Bush White House.

Long article, well worth reading. Here's the pull-out:

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Felt, a much more learned man than most realized, later wrote that he considered Huston "a kind of White House gauleiter over the intelligence community." The word "gauleiter" is not in most dictionaries, but in the four-inch-thick Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language it is defined as "the leader or chief official of a political district under Nazi control."

There is little doubt Felt thought the Nixon team were Nazis. During this period, he had to stop efforts by others in the bureau to "identify every member of every hippie commune" in the Los Angeles area, for example, or to open a file on every member of Students for a Democratic Society.
How Mark Felt Became 'Deep Throat'

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/2/05 at 9:40pm

Thanks, GrownUp! Great quote from McGovern:

"This war in Iraq, in my opinion is worse than anything Nixon did. I think Nixon deserved to be expelled from office in view of the cover-up that he carried on and the laws that he violated.... [Bush] claims to be Christian, following the will of God, and then he misleads the whole nation on a totally fraudulent enterprise in Iraq that we should have never been attached to."