Word: felt
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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...
...forced Richard Nixon from office in the middle of his second term, it was the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein that first stymied the efforts of the President's men to cover up the White House involvement in the crime. (See a photo essay on the saga of Mark Felt a.k.a. Deep Throat...
...Felt served as a confirming source for many of the scoops produced by the young Washington Post reporters, and his 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...
...also highly probable that Felt's assistance to the press chasing the Watergate scandal was not limited to the assistance he gave Woodward. In the early months after the 1972 Watergate burglary, the Washington Post was nearly alone in trying to unearth the truth about the incident. But as more and more was revealed and after Judge John J. Sirica forced the initial burglars into cooperating with investigators, a feeding frenzy broke out among news organizations. It was likely the most competitive period in the history of the American press. As the story grew, home office editors put more...
...incomprehension, terror, helplessness. Klein has it "forlorn." Yes. In an instant the most powerful man in the world sitting in a little chair has learned the world will never be the same again because there are people in it willing to do what they had just done. Briefly I felt sorry for him. I had only to absorb the enormity of what I was watching; he had to do something. Let us hope President Obama never has that look on his face. Terry Collcutt, BLETCHINGLEY, ENGLAND...