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Felt Had Personal Motivation Then and Now, Reports Suggest
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Morning Editor
June 1, 2005
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Not everyone sees Felt that way, however.
"He had the trust of America's leaders and to think that he betrayed that trust is hard for me to fathom," Nixon's former White House Counsel Charles Colson told the Associated Press.
Colson worked with Felt during the Nixon years and in 1974, he pleaded no contest to obstruction of justice in the Watergate affair. He served seven months in prison.
USA Today quoted Colson as saying that Felt should have gone to the FBI director with his concerns about White House manipulation; And if that didn't work, "He could have resigned in protest and blown the whole thing wide open."
USA Today quoted Colson as calling it "inconceivable...that a man of his caliber would be slinking around in dark alleys at night" to meet with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward.
Press reports note that Felt himself was convicted in 1980 for authorizing illegal break-ins at the homes of people associated with the radical Weather Underground in the 1970s. President Reagan pardoned him in 1981.
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