Felt Was No Hero but Could Have Been One

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The letters have come in all week. Watergate may have happened way back when gas was cheap and color televisions were expensive (the break-in at the Watergate apartment complex happened 33 years ago this Friday), but emotions concerning the scandal that felled a United States president are clearly still very near the surface.

This past Monday, I wrote about former FBI assistant director Mark Felt, a.k.a. Deep Throat, whose help to Washington Post investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein helped keep the Watergate investigation alive and kicking.

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Felt Was No Hero but Could Have Been One

My take was that by going public with confidential information, Felt was a deceiver and a liar -- not unlike Richard Nixon and All the President's Men....

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