We need another Deep Throat
And yes, I am old enough to remember
We found out years later that The Washington Post’s Woodard and Bernstein’s main source in their historic Watergate coverage — dubbed Deep Throat — was Mark Felt.
From Brittanica:
Felt joined the FBI as a freshly minted lawyer in 1942. By 1971 he was effectively in charge of the bureau’s day-to-day operations, though he was unexpectedly passed over for its top post a year later upon the death of J. Edgar Hoover. Shortly thereafter he began to secretly cooperate with reporter Bob Woodward in the Washington Post newspaper’s investigation into the abuses of presidential powers stemming from the break-in at the Watergate complex during the 1972 U.S presidential election campaign; his inside information was considered instrumental in implicating the White House. Felt retired from the FBI in 1973. In 1980 he was convicted of having ordered illegal break-ins of homes in the pursuit of bombing suspects, but he was later pardoned.
Was he a hero? A villain? I leave that for you to decide for yourself (I vote “hero”) but right now, we need a Mark Felt. After all, the Department of Justice, itself, has included leaks within the files they’ve released already. How about someone outside the DOJ?
Given the wide web of Epstein-tinged pedophiles or pedo-adjacent people and others who have access, the whole truth — the entire truth — is right there. Someone has access and that someone should consider leaking everything they have. Do us all a solid, Mark Felt 2.0. Leak it.
Watergate looms large in my memory bank. We had just moved to Miami after my dad retired from the State Dept, but really, the CIA. He spent the summer glued to the TV and when all was said and done, my mother told him to go find something to do with himself, because he was driving her crazy being home. The memory ends with a friend of mine sitting in her bedroom with the NIXON RESIGNS headline. We two scared junior high schoolers that didn't really understand what was happening but knew it was bad. It scared me a little more because of my father's abrupt retirement. In later years, I learned that while in India, my brother was shipping drugs stateside. That compromised my father's CIA gig. Watergate was child's play compared to today's world. And as an adult, I'm apprehensive and borderline terrified. Drugs are helping.
I would appreciate a Deep Throat stashed in the Defense Department. Heseth is NOTto be trusted. But then we would also have to find a replacement for the other end of the equation: The Washington Post.