Cheap Throat
Well, well, well...now we know who Deep Throat was. His name is W. Mark Felt and he was second in command at the FBI during the Nixon administration.
He provided information to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein which they printed in the Washington Post regarding the break-in at the Watergate Hotel, information which demonstrated that Nixon was, in fact, a crook and which led eventually to his resignation.
Mr. Felt did this because he worried that under Nixon, the White House sought an advantage over the FBI and the rest of the "intelligence community" (whatever that means). That is, Director Gray of the FBI at the time was in the habit of briefing the Nixon White House on matters that the FBI thought it shouldn't know about. In short, Mr. Felt brought down the Nixon White House in a power struggle.
Not that this makes Nixon an innocent victim or a good president, necessarily. And I can certainly understand those who wish that Deep Throat had acted from purer motives.
However, at bottom, I am reminded of something Benjamin Franklin said long ago about the founding of the United States of America: "Nations come into the world like bastard children - half compromised and half improvised." And clearly, the same can be said about the United States of today.
Benshlomo says, in the words of the old proverb, The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding small.
He provided information to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein which they printed in the Washington Post regarding the break-in at the Watergate Hotel, information which demonstrated that Nixon was, in fact, a crook and which led eventually to his resignation.
Mr. Felt did this because he worried that under Nixon, the White House sought an advantage over the FBI and the rest of the "intelligence community" (whatever that means). That is, Director Gray of the FBI at the time was in the habit of briefing the Nixon White House on matters that the FBI thought it shouldn't know about. In short, Mr. Felt brought down the Nixon White House in a power struggle.
Not that this makes Nixon an innocent victim or a good president, necessarily. And I can certainly understand those who wish that Deep Throat had acted from purer motives.
However, at bottom, I am reminded of something Benjamin Franklin said long ago about the founding of the United States of America: "Nations come into the world like bastard children - half compromised and half improvised." And clearly, the same can be said about the United States of today.
Benshlomo says, in the words of the old proverb, The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding small.
posted by benshlomo at 2:41 PM
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