Classy.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Aides to the late president Richard Nixon have said that former FBI deputy director Mark Felt, unmasked as the anonymous Watergate source known as "Deep Throat," had breached professional ethics by leaking information. G. Gordon Liddy, a Nixon operative who engineered the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Campaign headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington, and served four and a half years in jail for it, said Wednesday that Felt "violated the ethics of the law enforcement profession."

"If he possessed evidence of wrongdoing, he was honor-bound to take that to a grand jury and secure an indictment, not to selectively leak it to a single news source," Liddy, now a popular conservative radio talk show host, told CNN television.

Let's go over that again: G. Gordon Liddy is accusing someone of unethical behavior. This is the Liddy who said, in the wake of the Waco standoff, that people should aim for the heads of police and ATF personnel, so they could be sure to stop police who tried to apprehend them. That is, Liddy advised people to murder officers of the law. And this piece of human filth wants to call Felt unethical? Liddy isn't fit to change Felt's diaper.

God, it gets worse. First, Pat "Hitler was misunderstood" Buchanan calls Felt a "traitor." Gee, Pat, you've publicly said that America was mistaken to go to war with Hitler. Hitler declared war on America. Is it your contention that, after being attacked by Germany's ally Japan, and having Germany declare war against America, that the US should have sat and done nothing? Do you really think you're fit to call Felt a traitor? Here's an easier question for you, Pat: Can you ever, just once, open your mouth without embarassing yourself?

The kicker is at the end of the article:

The New York Times wondered if a Watergate scandal today would similarly come to light.

"Now, at a time when reporters' right to keep sources secret is under so much attack, it's worth asking whether Deep Throat would have shared his secrets" if he had not been confident the Post reporters would keep the secret.

Fuck off. Nobody is "attacking reporters' right to keep sources secret". Judith Miller and others are under investigation for witholding the name of someone who comitted treason. Miller should have been fired from the Times anyway for her egregious coverage of the Iraq war. The Times should be ashamed for it's coverage of Iraq - a war the paper was basically a cheerleader for, despite the fact that everything they "revealed" was usually contradicted no more than days later. The Times was suckered by people who wanted this war, and one of their reporters comitted a crime in the process. For them to whine about reporters' rights now, and to compare Miller to Woodward or Bernstein is just awful.