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"Deep Throat" died today.

Oh come on. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were not that bad. Sure Nixon crew bombed Cambodia and they lied to the people but like Nixon said "I"m not a crook".
 
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So was Deep Throat the inspiration for the Cigarette Smoking Man in X-Files?
 
Doesn't Felt's involvement show that the FBI was investigating the Watergate burglary, and in fact were always a step or 2 ahead of Woodward and Bernstein? In other words, would the Watergate scandal have broke even if Woodward and Bernstein hadn't wrote a single story on it?
 
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moon1969 said:
Oh come on. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were not that bad. Sure Nixon crew bombed Cambodia and they lied to the people but like Nixon said "I"m not a crook".
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Sure. And when Congress cut off the funding for American troops , forcing the U.S. to pull out of Southeast Asia, the Khmer Rouge killed three million in Cambodia.
 
WildCat said:
Doesn't Felt's involvement show that the FBI was investigating the Watergate burglary, and in fact were always a step or 2 ahead of Woodward and Bernstein? In other words, would the Watergate scandal have broke even if Woodward and Bernstein hadn't wrote a single story on it?
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In a word, yes.
 
I think it has been suggested (with some evidence) that Felt acted more out of anger at being passed over for a promotion than out of concern that the Nixon administration was drifting toward totalitarianism. Such is often the case with whistle-blowers. That does not mean that he didn't do the country a great service, just that he wasn't acting terribly altruistic in doing so.
 
Tricky said:
I think it has been suggested (with some evidence) that Felt acted more out of anger at being passed over for a promotion than out of concern that the Nixon administration was drifting toward totalitarianism. Such is often the case with whistle-blowers. That does not mean that he didn't do the country a great service, just that he wasn't acting terribly altruistic in doing so.
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Col. Claus Schenk Count von Stauffenberg attempted to do his country a great service and lost his life in the process. Felt only advanced Woodward's career. By remaining hidden in the shadows, he gambled nothing and his contributions to exposing what was behind the break-in pale in comparison to John Sirica and even Frank Wills.
 
BirdStrike said:
Ya total rip off. And X-Files was a rip off of Kolchak the Night Stalker.
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Really? I thought "Deep Throat" on the X Files was more like a rip off of Deep Throat. Also it would be a bit much to call the X Files a rip off of Kolchak. They shared the premise of investigating apparently supernatural events and that is about all. Based on that the series Supernatural would be a rip off of Kolchak. Chris Carter admitted he was a huge Kolchak fan and was inspired by it when writing the X Files. Even had Darren McGavin on the show as a guest star. So closer to homage than rip off.
That said it is sad about Deep Throat, I will miss her movies, she wasn't that pretty but had a lot of talent. :D
 
A few words about Mark Felt. He was not the sole source--nor was he the most important source--that Bob Woodward had. Felt's main contribution seemed to be that he told Woodward to keep digging, and his position gave him credibility for the Post to believe that the whole story had not been told.

Felt was not a whistle-blower in the conventional sense. He was not a saint or a hero, nor was he a purely evil man. His motives were neither pure nor petty. His methods were neither wise nor foolhardy.

It has been said the Nixon's White House was "Shakespearean" in its abuse of power and its downfall. Felt could be a character crafted by Shakespeare: complicated, a mix of virtue and vice, a man who probably could not grasp the full consequences of what he did.
 
Casting Felt as a hero is certainly not right...nor was he a villain as some suggest. It's probably true the truth would have emerged in time from official investigations; it seems likely he had an axe to grind; but whatever Felt's motives were he helped speed up that process.
 
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