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...likes a snitch, but Mark Felt, the former FBI agent who late in life revealed himself as the great mystery man known as Deep Throat, performed an act of high patriotism by helping Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein expose the most serious set of political crimes in American history. His identity also became one of the great journalistic obsessions of the 20th century. Felt died this week at the age of 95 in Santa Rosa, California...
...role was critical to the Post's willingness to print incendiary stories about the scandal. As the Post printed scoop after scoop about the scandal, the Nixon White House ratcheted up its threats against the newspaper and its television stations. The fact that a high-level official of the FBI was confirming the stories emboldened the paper's owner Katharine Graham to resist those threats. Felt's motives for helping Woodward (whom Felt had met in the Nixon White House when Woodward was a young Navy lieutenant carrying classified documents between the Pentagon and the National Security Council) were...
...summer of 1974, TIME was prominent among the news organization unearthing important scoops about the misdeeds of the Nixon Administration. Many of TIME's stories, including most notably the first story about the secret wiretaps on reporters and his own staff ordered by Henry Kissinger, were from FBI sources. TIME was also a leader in uncovering the fact that Nixon's vice president, Spiro T. Agnew, was taking payoff money while in office. Agnew sued the Justice Department and TIME among others, charging them with libel. On the day TIME attorneys were to answer a subpoena in that case, Agnew...
...state so plagued by cronyism and shady self-dealing that the head of the FBI here didn't hesitate to call Illinois one of the - if not the - most corrupt states in the nation, Lieut. Governor Pat Quinn is considered something of a Goody Two-Shoes. Responsible for slashing the size of the state legislature, he has been booed by legislators on the capitol floor. He keeps a minimal staff and is said to charge $75 a ticket for fundraisers - at a time when entry to most is well into the hundreds if not thousands of dollars. The former...
...Anita Busch discovered a dead fish with a red rose in its mouth and a sign reading "Stop" on the cracked windshield of her Audi. At the time, she was writing about Steven Seagal and Mike Ovitz, both clients of Pellicano. The trail eventually led to his office, where FBI agents discovered plastic explosives, grenades, pistols and about $200,000 in cash in Pellicano's safe. He pleaded guilty to weapons charges and went to prison...