Nixon’s Deep Throat Revealed!

Mark Felt: The conscience of the FBI, or a career opportunist who conspired to bring down a US president to further his career?

First of all, if your only reference to Deep Throat is Linda Lovelace and XXX action, click here to release your mind and the rest will follow….

But for those who are aware of its political significance (also), here’s to the yawning relief that our long national secret has finally been revealed:

W. Mark Felt, a 91 year old former FBI agent, was outed by his family today as the man from whom Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein sucked the information that led to the downfall of the Nixon Administration. But who can deny relishing the secret wish that Deep Throat was a Christine Keeler type like Diane Sawyer or an Iago character like Alexander Haig; and not some frustrated or disgruntled FBI bureaucrat posing as a do-gooder….Talk about an anti-climax!

Nevertheless, the reluctance of Woodward and Bernstein to confirm his identity adds yet another curious dimension to this story. Because it seems rather suspicious that even after Felt and his family revealed the secret, Woodward and Bernstein issued inherently moot declarations of abiding fealty to it. Which begs the question: did they have more than a journalistic interest in prolonging this mystery?

After all, Woodward and Bernstein seemed positively perturbed that Felt had preempted their grand plans for his disclosure at a time of their choosing (purportedly after his death). And, it is certainly more than a little ironic that these 2 men who had based their careers on releasing the flow of information in the public interest were now gagging on such information that seems to have exploded without their mercurial manipulation.

Mr Felt with his proud daughter and grandson – both of whom are no doubt wondering if there is an outstanding whistleblower reward for ratting-out a rouge president….

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