For his part, let’s be clear, Deep Throat DID want anonymity. Desperately. He feared his own FBI and Watergate collaborators willing to kill him. Nixon was no saint. But fear evaporates in SUNSHINE, and once the tapes were outed, once Judge Sirica ruled, with the Saturday Night Massacre and Archibald Cox standing up, it was time. Felt deserved the Nation’s highest award, not indictment. He was shamed much like we are now shaming a man hiding in Moscow .. for his troubles. And another coming from England. We Americans have a long way to go.
Yes, Felt should have been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Snowden should have received it as well. Snowden caught my eye because I did similar work in the army (ASA, 1966-70) but on a lower level. (My level was somewhere between Snowden and Manning.) Snowden is intelligent, patriotic, and courageous. He performed an heroic act for the American people. All Snowden is guilty of is telling the American people that their government is spying on them, recording their phone calls and monitoring their internet use. Big deal. I knew that 50 years ago. In the Army Security Agency, we had an open motto as written on our decal--"In God We Trust. Everyone else we monitor."
Wow, thank you for that. I thought Deep Throat wanted to remain anonymous and hidden. Had no idea of what that family suffered…
For his part, let’s be clear, Deep Throat DID want anonymity. Desperately. He feared his own FBI and Watergate collaborators willing to kill him. Nixon was no saint. But fear evaporates in SUNSHINE, and once the tapes were outed, once Judge Sirica ruled, with the Saturday Night Massacre and Archibald Cox standing up, it was time. Felt deserved the Nation’s highest award, not indictment. He was shamed much like we are now shaming a man hiding in Moscow .. for his troubles. And another coming from England. We Americans have a long way to go.
Yes, Felt should have been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Snowden should have received it as well. Snowden caught my eye because I did similar work in the army (ASA, 1966-70) but on a lower level. (My level was somewhere between Snowden and Manning.) Snowden is intelligent, patriotic, and courageous. He performed an heroic act for the American people. All Snowden is guilty of is telling the American people that their government is spying on them, recording their phone calls and monitoring their internet use. Big deal. I knew that 50 years ago. In the Army Security Agency, we had an open motto as written on our decal--"In God We Trust. Everyone else we monitor."
So, yes, "We Americans have a long way to go."
Amusing! Sandy