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Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:42 p.m. EDT
Felt Authorized His Own Watergates
Newly crowned media hero Mark Felt, who revealed on Tuesday that he was the "Deep Throat" tipster who helped Woodward and Bernstein sink President Nixon, may have masterminded a few Watergates of his own when he was No. 2 man at the FBI.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
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"In November 1980, Felt and Edward S. Miller, then head of the FBI's intelligence division, were convicted of authorizing break-ins without warrants into the homes of members of the Weathermen in the 1970s, a radical antiwar group.
"During the trial, Felt testified that he was following standard procedures for government investigations."
President Ronald Reagan later granted the two men full pardons.
Apparently Felt was guilty of authorizing the same kind of political burglaries that critics accused Richard Nixon of - but could never prove.
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