FBI's No. 2 Was 'Deep Throat'

I just can't stop reading about this. It is ground-breaking and refreshing. I only hope the Felt fam can get a l'il paper out of it. And to those that are calling Mark Felt a traitor; blow it out ya ass!

It's ridiculous how many many articles I've read about this today:

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/06/01/DI2005060100769.html
• Conflicted and Mum for Decades
• Used to Hoover's Imperious Demands, but Troubled by 'Switchblade Mentality'
• 'Deep Throat' was ultimate whistleblower to some
• 'Deep Throat' ends mystery, provides lesson on sources
• Introducing Deep Throat
• Throat soreness
• Were Felt's leaks Illegal
• Deep Throat, Antihero
• Deep Throat Comes ... Forward
• Un masking Deep Throat - Slate's Deep Throat Complex
  

On the day of his conviction in 1980, Felt spoke to reporters outside the courthouse to express his disappointment with the verdict. "I spent my entire adult life working for the government, and I always tried to do what I thought was right and what was in the best interest of this country and what would protect the safety of this country," he said.

Looking back after yesterday's revelation, that quotation may express one of the motivations that led this otherwise unlikely public servant to engage in the surreptitious actions that led to Nixon's political demise.