Deep Throat -- The Reviews Are In

Vanity Fair does its share of real reporting these days. So, it was interesting to see them unmasking Deep Throat. More interesting to me, though, was the reaction of various people involved directly at the time. Take that criminal now bible thumper Chuck Colson:

"When any president has to worry whether the deputy director of the FBI is sneaking around in dark corridors peddling information in the middle of the night, he's in trouble," said Colson, who founded Prison Fellowship Ministries after leaving jail. "There were times when I should have blown the whistle, so I understand his feelings. But I cannot approve of his methods."

Or Nixon's speechwriter and today's talkshow gadfly, Patrick Buchanon:

Speaking last night on MSNBC's "Hardball," former Nixon speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan labeled Felt a "traitor" for having worked with reporters on stories that did severe damage to the administration.

Personally I'm a big fan of protecting whistleblowers. I see Oracle even had one recently. After all of the Deep Throat disclosure, it comes as an ironic conclusion to find out that the guy's motivation was to protect the FBI (as this 13 year old article in the Atlantic shows). More funny that John Dean, the guy who has been making his living off of Watergate for 30 years now, got it wrong.