Colson on Deep Throat: Secrecy is a moral value?

[Kire]

Colson on Deep Throat: Secrecy is a moral value?

"I never thought anybody with such a position of sensitivity at the Justice Department would breach confidences.... A hero is someone that you want other people to emulate...and to say he was a hero because he broke his trust...he broke the confidence of the president of the United States." (CNS News)

"Mark first served this country with honor, and I can't imagine how Mark Felt was sneaking in dark alleys leaving messages under flower pots and violating his oath to keep this nation's secrets." (Associated Press)

"Mark Felt could have stopped Watergate. He was in a position of that kind of influence. Instead, he goes out and basically undermines the administration." (Agence France-Presse)

- Charles Colson, commenting on the actions of former FBI official W. Mark Felt, recently revealed as Deep Throat, the secret Washington Post source who helped break the Watergate scandal. Colson was head of communications in the Nixon White House in 1972, and served prison time after pleading no contest to obstruction of justice in the scandal.

From SojoMail 06.02.05
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[GreenArrow]

1. Colson has NO credibility on this.

None.

[jarab]

2. Mark Felt is the best thing that ever happened

to Colson.
A little stint in the slammer, and he's been on easy street ever since.
...O...

[Inland]

3. Felt could have stopped the SCANDAL, not the criminality

by staying indoors. He stops the scandal beacause nobody gets caught, at the price of ensuring the criminality continues. Are we surprised that the CRIMINAL wanted the crimes to go unknown and unpunished? Is there any better proof of why Felt needed to go to the press?

[Vanje]

4. Are a tyrant's secrets , a "nation's secrets"?

Felon Charles Colson "can't imagine how Mark Felt was sneaking in dark alleys leaving messages under flower pots and violating his oath to keep this nation's secrets."

When a president actively covers up a crime (burglery)committed by his own staff against American citizens, is that a nation's secret?

[Benhurst]

5. A U.S. official's loyalty is supposed to be to the Constitution, not the

particular miscreant occupying the White House at any given time.

[longship]

6. Amazing!

All the conspirators are chiming in against the Constitutional processes which our founding fathers set up to preserve our form of government.

It's sad.

[cornermouse]

7. And this was said by a person who is running a prison ministry?

What's wrong with this picture?

[applegrove]

8. The WH & the GOP are all about secrets and Obtuseness. Look

at the biggest secret of all - What the hell is in that SS plan anyway?

Hypocrites.