Susan Jones, CNSNews.com
Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Story Continues Below

  In a Wednesday morning interview with Fox & Friends, Kissinger said some details of Woodward and Bernstein's story (signaling Deep Throat from a balcony; clandestine meetings in an underground parking garage) sound more "like a detective story than something that realistically happen in Washington at that level of government."

Kissinger said President Richard Nixon rarely talked to him about Watergate, because the Nixon White House kept foreign and domestic policy strictly separated.

And although Kissinger doesn't remember meeting Felt, he said he considers him a "troubled man," not a hero.

"My own view is that if you're in a high government position or any government position and you disagree with the government, you ought to resign, and if you think you have seen a criminal act, you ought to go to the prosecutor."

Kissinger said there is nothing heroic about a high-ranking government official spying on the president:

"I could fully understand if he (Felt) had resigned; and I could fully understand if he had told the president that what the president was doing was wrong; and if he then went to the prosecutor - that would have been heroic...but hero is not the word that comes to my mind."

Kissinger explained the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover was practically an autonomous unit. When Hoover died, the fact that Nixon brought in an outsider (L. Patrick Gray III) to lead the FBI "must have jarred the established institution," Kissinger said.

Nixon, feeling that the FBI was outside his control, wanted his own man in charge of the organization, Kissinger said.

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