June 1, 2005

Hoover's guy, Mark Felt

By Thomas Lifson
I am confused by the liberal media. Until yesterday's revelation that Mark Felt was Deep Throat, I was pretty sure that liberals disapproved when a top official of the FBI gathered information from the Bureau's formidable investigative apparatus, and then used that information to accomplish a personal agenda, by threatening to use it to discredit top politicians, or even, in rare cases, using it to bring down someone. That was the rap against J. Edgar Hoover. Supposedly, he kept detailed dossiers on all the top officials in Washington, and his careful use of the occasionally compromising information his agents developed accounted for his unprecedented tenure in office, ample budgets, and positive press (as long as he was alive). Wasn't it liberal gospel that J. Edgar Hoover, who built the FBI into our pre—eminent law enforcement agency, was an Evil Man? Didn't liberals consider Hoover such an abuser of democracy that any tactics were justified to smear him? For example, it is...(Read Full Article)