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Liddy Calls Felt a 'Pitiful, Pathetic Old Man'
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
June 2, 2005

(CNSNews.com) -- Conservative radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy, who was sent to jail for his role in the Watergate scandal, said former FBI Deputy Director F. Mark Felt is a "flawed individual" who was pressured to confess his identity as the confidential source known as "Deep Throat" because his family wanted money.

Liddy told the Fox News Channel's John Gibson Wednesday that as a law enforcement officer if Felt had evidence of a crime and the participants of that crime, "he was duty bound to take that to the grand jury."

"That's what he should have done rather than leak it selectively to a single news source," said Liddy. "What he did was wrong, and he knew it was wrong. That's why he did not want to go public," added Liddy.

When asked whether Felt was hypocritical because he was later convicted on an unrelated wiretapping charge after the Watergate scandal, Liddy said it makes Felt "a flawed individual."

"It certainly does not make him a hero. Right now, he's a pitiful, pathetic old man who can hardly stand and whose mind is there sometimes and is not at other times," added Liddy.

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