Watergate "Deep Throat" Mark Felt Dead At 95

Hugh Pickens writes "W. Mark Felt Sr., 95, associate director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal, better known as 'Deep Throat,' the most famous anonymous source in American history, died at his home in Santa Rosa, California. Felt secretly guided Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to pursue the story of the 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate office buildings, and later of the Nixon administration's campaign of spying and sabotage against its perceived political enemies. 'It's impossible to exaggerate how high the stakes were in Watergate,' wrote Felt in his 2006 book A G-Man's Life. 'We faced no simple burglary, but an assault on government institutions, an attack on the FBI's integrity, and unrelenting pressure to unravel one of the greatest political scandals in our nation's history.' No one knows exactly what prompted Felt to leak the information from the Watergate probe to the press. He was passed over for the post of FBI director after Hoover's death in 1972, a crushing career disappointment. 'People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward. The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out, and isn't that what the FBI is supposed to do?'"

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Mark Felt Dead at 95?

[Kaell Meynn]

I think I'd feel dead at 95 too, if I were not in really good health.

Re:Mark Felt Dead at 95?

[Anonymous Coward]

He is survived by his wife, Ivana B. Felt.

Re:Answer's obvious.

[Anonymous Coward]

With a nickname like "Deep throat", I would imagine finding balls would be easy.

Thanks Slashdot

[kentrel]

I was JUST about to sit down and watch Thursday's breaking news that I had on TiVo, and now you've just ruined it for me.

Media AI source code

[Majik Sheff]

if(politician.party=="republican") {
      attack(politician);
} else if(politician.party=="democrat") {
      fellate(politician);
} else {
      ignore(politician);
}

Re:Media AI source code

[Tubal-Cain]

} else {
ignore(politician);
}

Good for you, accounting for those rare, one-in-a-million occurrences.
Huh. I can't get the non-breaking spaces to work.

Re:Media AI source code

[Anonymous Coward]

Where did you find a fellate() function? I've been looking for that for years!

Re:Media AI source code

[Majik Sheff]

#include "clinton.inc"

It provides a public interface to the fellate() function, making it compatible with the politician class. Unfortunately it randomly leaves behind objects of class blue_dress in memory.

In his honor...

[VinylRecords]

I guess this weekend, seeing as I'm literally snowed into my apartment, I'll fire up All the President's Men on the TV........and Deep Throat....

that was a recent change.

[pohl]

From the SVN ChangeLog...

2008-11-05 08:35  cabal_hacker

    * Media/src/com/murdock/ruppert/policy/Spin.java: Thank god we don't
          have to fellate that warmongering dunce anymore.  Reversing parties.

Re:Oh please, he was Hoover's #2

[MichaelSmith]

I always had the impression that being #2 to Hoover involved deep throat duties anyway.

Re:Oh please, he was Hoover's #2

[Anonymous Coward]

is like saying Linsday Lohan is offended by Paris Hilton's public tramp behavior

This analogy of yours involves persons of the opposite sex. As a slashdotter, I am not able to understand such an analogy. Please provide the equivalent car analogy for this situation.

Thank you.