Mark Felt - AKA 'Deep Throat' - Dies

clipped from www.reuters.com Mark Felt, the mysterious "Deep Throat" source who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein crack the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, has died at age 95. Felt suffered from congestive heart failure but the exact cause of his death at home on Thursday was not immediately known, said the Press Democrat newspaper in Santa Rosa, California, 55 miles north of San Francisco. Felt, the No. 2 official at the FBI when the Watergate case broke, kept his role in the story a secret for 30 years. Only in 2005, at age 91, was his part made public in an article in Vanity Fair magazine written by Felt's family lawyer. "I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," Felt told attorney John O'Connor. "He had nothing but contempt for the Nixon White House and their efforts to manipulate the bureau for political reasons."

The right called him a traitor and the left thought he should talked to the feds, instead of exposing Nixon to the Washington Post.

Whatever you think of his methods, they worked. We didn't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.