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http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/31/deep.throat.ap/index.html

NEW YORK (AP) -- A former FBI official says he was the source called "Deep Throat" who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, Vanity Fair reported Tuesday.

W. Mark Felt, 91, who was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s, kept the secret even from his family until 2002, when he confided to a friend that he had been Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's source, the magazine said.

"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," he told lawyer John D. O'Connor, the author of the Vanity Fair article, the magazine said in a press release.

Felt was initially adamant about remaining silent on the subject, thinking disclosures about his past somehow dishonorable.

"I don't think (being Deep Throat) was anything to be proud of," Felt indicated to his son, Mark Jr., at one point, according to the article. "You (should) not leak information to anyone."

Felt is a retiree living in Santa Rosa, Calif., with his daughter, Joan, the magazine said. He could not immediately be reached for comment by The Associated Press.

The Washington Post had no immediate comment.

Felt is one of a number of people who have been named over the years as the source whose disclosures helped bring down the Nixon presidency. Others include Assistant Attorney General Henry Peterson, deputy White House counsel Fred Fielding, and even ABC newswoman Diane Sawyer, who then worked in the White House press office.

In 1999, Felt denied he was the man.

"I would have done better," Felt told The Hartford Courant. "I would have been more effective. Deep Throat didn't exactly bring the White House crashing down, did he?"

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Maybe I'm missing the relevence. Mr. Deep Throat, the chief dude in the Watergate mess, reveils himself. So? Should we celebrate? Should we mourn? As far as I can tell, the guy was doing his job. Is it as simple as "doing his job" gets a president to resign?
 
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Zurp said:
Maybe I'm missing the relevence. Mr. Deep Throat, the chief dude in the Watergate mess, reveils himself. So? Should we celebrate? Should we mourn? As far as I can tell, the guy was doing his job. Is it as simple as "doing his job" gets a president to resign?
To me Deep Throat and Watergate is as interesting a piece of history as you will ever read or have ever lived through. The leakage of the information to Woodward and Bernstein made careers of those two and severely damaged Nixon. (Though his eventual downfall came as a result of his penchant for recording everything). A thoroughly dichotomous personality, craving the power and attention of political office, yet deeply mistrustful of the media. Only Nixon could go to China, broker an end to the Vietnam War and then shoot himself in the foot by fumbling the tape transcriptions.

Oh, and as far as the guy (Felt) just doing his job, leaking information to the press is probably not listed in the official job description for a deputy chief at the FBI ... even to this day. :wink2:

(As for the early crack on FOX - I just think it is odd that they got caught flat footed on a piece that should be red meat for the likes of Hannity & Colmes or Bill O'Reilly -- or any news network for that matter.)
 
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It is hysterical to watch the cable news shows and see subhuman filth like E Gordon Liddy and Pat Buchanan call Felt a "traitor" and a disgrace. :slappy:

Pat Buchanan just said on Hardball that "The people that brought down Richard Nixon were a hell of a lot worse than he was." He basically said Felt and his ilk were to blame for the fall of Vietnam, the deaths in Camebodia, and the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Yes, really. I'm not making that up. Why don't you blame Woodward and Bernstein too? :roll1:

Thank god for cable TV so we can see what people like Pat Buchanan think.
 
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If felt is so suddenly proud of himself, why did he wait until now to disclose his identity?

And don't give me the fear for his safety crap, b/c any #2 in the fbi would protect his own life to save his children and grandchildren....
 
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