Doing so requires burrowing through a great number of primary documents and government records against the backdrop of a vast secondary literature. Only recently, more than four decades after Nixon’s downfall, has it become possible to reconstruct Felt’s design and what really happened during those fateful six months following the Watergate break-in. Things just didn’t turn out anywhere close to the way he wanted. Felt didn’t help the media for the good of the country, he used the media in service of his own ambition. Getting rid of Nixon was the last thing Felt ever wanted to accomplish indeed, he was banking on Nixon’s continuation in office to achieve his one and only aim: to reach the top of the FBI pyramid and become director. A new biopic about Felt, starring Liam Neeson, is due out on September 29 and shows every sign of continuing to portray Deep Throat as a profound patriot and dedicated FBI lifer.īut here’s a heretical thought: Mark Felt was no hero. Or, as David Remnick spelled out in the New Yorker-echoing Deep Throat’s original hagiographers, Woodward and Bernstein-Felt “believed that the Nixon administration was corrupt, paranoid and trying to infringe on the independence of the bureau.” The president and his top aides ran, Felt believed, “a criminal operation out of the White House, and risked everything to guide” the Post reporters. The unarticulated presumption, which Sullivan, Litman and Rich are not alone in making, is that Felt-the FBI’s deputy director in June 1972, and subsequently the parking-garage interlocutor who steered Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to reportorial heights-was an honorable, selfless whistleblower intent on exposing the lawlessness rampant in the Nixon White House. New York magazine columnist Frank Rich has gone a step further and already announced his casting choice: James Comey is today’s Deep Throat. “Was it wrong for Deep Throat, as FBI official Mark Felt was then known, to guide the investigation?” Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan asked in June, in the midst of a column praising leaks and anonymous sources, and inviting more. The original Deep Throat “was instrumental in thwarting the conspiracy and bringing Nixon down,” Harry Litman, a former deputy assistant attorney general, approvingly wrote in the Los Angeles Times in May.
Mark Felt-has become practically synonymous with the ideal of the noble leaker. In the years since Watergate, the Washington Post’s famous golden source-later revealed to be former FBI No. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Max Holland is the author of Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat, which has just been published in paperback.Ĭolumnists, talking heads and op-ed writers are holding open auditions for a role that presumably needs to be filled if we are ever going to get to the bottom of what seems fated to be dubbed, for better or worse, Russiagate: a new Deep Throat. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls.
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