Growing up watching the X-Files resulted in me viewing FBI agents' attempts to thwart government conspiracies as commonplace. Hence my disappointment today when we learned that Mark Felt, then #2 at the FBI, was Deep Throat--Woordward's anonymous source in the Watergate scandal. The captivating, decades-long build-up did not end in some startling revelation of Republican back-stabbing, but with a government employee ostensibly doing his job. Perhaps the FBI was different in the 60s and 70s, with the agency beholden to the Commander-in-Chief, but when I became introduced to politics, Louis Freeh was recommending a special prosecutor to investigate the Clinton Administration. Thus, it seems natural to me that an agent with knowledge of a vast cover-up that harms the American public would do his or her best to fight it. And that appears to be just what happened. Yawn: what's next?
(A potentially more interesting aspect of this story is why the Washington Post has taken so long to comment on this revelation and if they are disappointed that they could not break the story of the final chapter in the Watergate saga.)
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