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Felt has been No. 2 man in the FBI since May 1972. With the temporary, pinch-hitting director William D. Ruckelshaus devoting almost all his time to problems raised by Watergate, Felt has been running the show. Only 59, Felt could have stayed on for eleven more years...
...brass in Washington and all but one of its 59 field-office chiefs sent a telegram drafted by Walters asking Nixon to pick one of the FBI veterans-"among whom there is an inherent nonpartisanship"-as the new chief. Instead, he made the interim choice of Ruckelshaus, who had been the able head of the Environmental Protection Agency, without even bothering to inform Felt, who learned of the appointment from a reporter. The telegram elicited no response...
...about the same time, President Nixon became incensed by various news leaks and ordered the FBI to stop them. As the bureau's just-appointed director, William D. Ruckelshaus, now admits, the FBI failed in that mission; it did, however, set up a number of wiretaps without any court authorization. One of them was on the home phone of Morton Halperin, then a consultant for the National Security Council, and on that tap, the FBI heard some conversations by Ellsberg. Fully a year ago. Judge Byrne had demanded an account of all Government eavesdropping on Ellsberg, but Ruckelshaus disclosed...
...sensibilities in the Administration have become so bruised in the infighting that another interim replacement, William Ruckelshaus, is already in trouble as acting director of the FBI. He replaced L. Patrick Gray III, who had resigned after being hopelessly compromised by destroying evidence...
...cooperating with the White House to protect high officials in the Watergate scandal. Although no one assailed Ruckelshaus personally, the tough former head of the Environmental Protection Agency became the target of a revolt within the FBI against any more political appointments. All but one of the FBI'S 59 field-office heads joined in a telegram to the President demanding that "qualified executives within the FBI" be considered for the top spot. Ruckelshaus, who does not want the permanent directorship, tried to calm the top FBI officials in a 20-minute meeting. But after he left, they...