hehe well not that Deep Throat this Deep Throat
History often waits till death bed confessions to be written and then we spend 10 years coming to terms with the truth we did not know. W. Mark Felt has brought us to such a moment.
In the early 1970s, Felt oversaw a turbulent period in the FBI's history. The FBI was pursuing radicals in the Weather Underground who had planted bombs at the Capitol, the Pentagon, and the State Department. Felt, along with Edward S. Miller, authorized FBI agents to break into homes secretly, without a search warrant. Felt and Miller were charged with conspiracy. They were convicted by a jury on November 6, 1980. Ironically, Richard Nixon appeared as a defense witness during the trial. Although the charge carried a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, Felt was fined $5,000 (Miller was fined $3,500). President Ronald Reagan pardoned both on April 15, 1981.
I think this shows that it clearly wasn't the break in or even the obstruction of Justice which bothered W. Mark Felt. It might be that his little feudalistic slice of the great potamac swamp was smacked down by the president, it might be the rumors of his being passed up for the acting director position as a motive are true. It will take some time to figure out these questions about why deep throat did what he did and what it means to this nation.
I think Woodward owes us some explinations as how some of the "facts" he told us about Deep Throat don't apply to Felt. I think he needs to own up to the fact (a) he lied or (b) he has a whole different background then he has ever told us about.
I think we should find out why Felt didn't expose the fact to Woodward and Bernstein, if G. Gordon Liddy isn't lying, that the whole break in was over a call girl ring ran out of the Democratic National Headquarters office. These details were known to the FBI at the time so Felt would have known them. Our history does deserve an answer to this.
Why W. Mark Felt did what he did is still an open question, was he the sole Deep Background source for Woodward and Bernstein is also an open question. but what isn't an open question is how the watergate coverup didn't need to happen. It didn't need to take down the presidency of Richard M. Nixon. and the one thing History should teach us is that the incidents removing him were more the fault of his arrogance then his actions
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