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June 01, 2005
Watergate Scandal: Mark Felt Confirms Watergate Suspicions
Decades after the Richard Nixon Watergate scandal occurred, the anonymous source known as Deep Throat, who provided information to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein has been identified and confirmed as Mark Felt.
Many had always suspected Felt as the source of the information throughout the Richard Nixon Watergate scandal, because he was one of the few people that could have been in a position to know the details of Watergate. At the time the Watergate break in happened, Felt was the #2 official at the FBI. There were many other candidates that people had named over the years as to who was Deep Throat in Watergate.
Felt continued to deny that he was the source of any information about Watergate to the press. When interviewed about the Watergate scandal in 1999, Felt was quoted, "I would have done better, I would have been more effective. Deep Throat didn't exactly bring the White House crashing down, did he?"
Some believe that Felt is a hero for being one of the main reasons that the Nixon Watergate cover up was unraveled and revealed to the public, which lead to Nixon's resignation in 1974 and the convictions of forty government officials on felony charges. Others believe that Felt is far from heroic, and that he is in fact a coward for not approaching the top official at the FBI to make the Watergate scandal visible to the public eye.
Posted by Tuck at June 1, 2005 02:32 PM
