Friday, June 3, 2005 from Cohutta

Mark Felt was a messenger that the Republicans would like to kill. It must be killing them that they cannot openly defame his character. Their problem is that he was telling the truth. Their other problem is that this would be pointed out to them by the American public. You can elevate a liar to hero status if he has charisma and tells the right lies (case in point, Ollie North) but to tear down Mark Felt might be a tough sell. I think that Rumsfeld came the closest when he questioned whether it was right for Felt to go the media rather than report the wrongdoing. I think that that's a legitimate issue, but who do you report it to when your boss is in on it?