NYT: L. Patrick Gray Says He Felt Betrayal at Deep Throat Unmasking

[DeepModem Mom]

Gray Says He Felt Betrayal at Deep Throat Unmasking
By DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: June 26, 2005


WASHINGTON, June 26 - L. Patrick Gray, the acting director of the F.B.I. at the time of the Watergate break-in, ended more than three decades of silence about his role in the scandal, saying in a television interview broadcast Sunday that he felt shock and betrayal by the disclosure that his former deputy, W. Mark Felt, was Deep Throat.

In an interview on the ABC News program "This Week," Mr. Gray said that he felt "like I was hit with a tremendous sledgehammer" by Mr. Felt's recent disclosure that he was the secret source for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporters who broke important Watergate news relying on Mr. Felt's information.

Mr. Gray, 88, resigned from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in disgrace in 1973. In the ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos, he spoke bitterly of Mr. Felt, saying that "he told me time and again he was not Deep Throat."

If he could, Mr. Gray said, he would say to Mr. Felt: "Mark, why? Why didn't you come to me? Why didn't we work it out together?" Mr. Gray said he now realized that he failed to halt news leaks from the bureau during Watergate because Mr. Felt was in charge of stopping them.

"I think he fooled me, if you want to put it that way, Mr. Stephanopoulos, by being the perfect example of the F.B.I. agent that he was," Mr. Gray said, according to a transcript of the interview. "He did his job well, he did it thoroughly, and I trusted him all along, and I was, I can't begin to tell you how deep was my shock and my grief when I found that it was Mark Felt."...


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/politics/26cnd-gray.html?hp&ex=1119844800&en=1380a18f6587388c&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. I don't know anything about this Mr. Gray, but I can say this:

Sometimes the country isn't best served when you have people in high places who are team players.

[Wickerman]

He's on with George Stephie right now

re-writing history to protect his legacy.

[barb162]

20. I saw that...it was weird

[thebigidea]

2. I find it fascinating that they give more media time to the criminals!

[pretzel4gore]

3. still twisting slowly in the wind

at 88 years old, the frigging dupe is still playacting ...just to sit beside steppinlotsofit says gray hasn't learned a goddam thing (george steppinlotsofit is a lying mediawhore 1st class)

[thebigidea]

4. he's also pretty much irrelevant, isn't he

that goofball hardly ever gets mentioned on here - his program never does anything remotely newsworthy...

[pretzel4gore]

12. you're right...

imagine being a national profile newsman in times like this and being an.....ambulance chaser(!)
these milk fed pigs are a disgrace...one can almost smell their ernestness as they ernestly waste everybody's time

[TahitiNut]

5. L. Patrick Gray: a corrupt, despicable fool

What do we call a law enforcement officer who destroys evidence?
What do we call a law enforcement officer who keeps suspects informed of an investigation?

I call him a crook!

[5thGenDemocrat]

14. Or, as the National Lampoon Radio Hour once put it

(through bullhorn):
"THIS IS L PATRICK GRAY OF THE FBI --
I KNOW I'M IN THERE!
IF I DON'T COME OUT IN TEN SECONDS
I'M COMING IN AFTER ME!!"
John
God, I've been waiting a LONG time to use that one.

[TahitiNut]

19. (LOL!)

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[bemildred]

6. Yeah, well the FBI betrayed the people back then, and they still do.

So shit happens. When they stop trying to be secret police and
suppress political dissent, we can talk.

[Eloriel]

7. Work it OUT? You gotta be kidding me

I love this line: Mr. Gray said he now realized that he failed to halt news leaks from the bureau during Watergate because Mr. Felt was in charge of stopping them.

I dunno. I just can't find any sympathy for the guy. If he can't see that it was the RIGHT thing, then he's not on the right side of history.

[Vickers]

8. More betrayed than how Nixon treated the country?

What an idiot.

"Mr. Gray, 88, resigned from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in disgrace in 1973."

Naturally. :eyes:

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. If it wasn't for Gray

we wouldn't have needed a Deep Throat. As I recall, the FBI was in cahoots with Nixon. Felt is a hero for exposing the scandal. Gray is just a bitter old fool who made a huge mistake 30+ years ago. He looks even more foolish with these comments today.

[DBoon]

10. Patrick Grey cannot possibly be "betrayed"

You can only snitch on a criminal

[salin]

11. whaaaa whaaaaa.... whine whine...

why did you think that you couldn't tell me... was it that you thought I would abet the criminals... was it that you thought I was in cahoots... what you really should have let me do is shut you down and keep a lid on things... waaaa waaaaa

Seriously - why aren't they giving equal airtime to those whose lives were fucked up by these people. How about to Muskies family who was subjected to awful tricks... how about to folks in the DNC at the time? How about to those who held the senate hearings esp the republicans who felt betrayed by the white house?

Why are just the crooks given all of the air time?

[pretzel4gore]

13. somehow the answer sorta sticks out!

'fox' guards a henhouse aka the USA....if a free press is necessary to democratic civil order, then 'fox' and the rest of the mediapigs are committing a theft; they are stealing the info necessary to determining what's proper conduct of public affairs

[lovuian]

15. Its gotta hurt to see your underling depose ya!!!

but it happens over and over again!!!

Maybe Mr.Gray should have done his JOB!!! rather than let his underling do it!!!

[Puzzler]

16. Yeah well...

... I wonder how many people felt betrayed by Nixon and co? I mean... give me a f***ing break!


-P

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. "work it out together" = "could have suicided him"

[dchill]

18. And I felt betrayal ...

at Nixon unmasking. Dry your tears LPG, and go jump in a lake.

[AlCzervik]

21. isn't this guy the father C. Boyden Gray? what is it with these

people and their pretentious going by an initial then a name?

[cestpaspossible]

22. GRAY RESIGNED IN DISGRACE 'nuff said

Another unindicted criminal feels 'betrayed' by a hero.