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all him
hero, trai-
tor, whistle-
blower or snake,
"Deep Throat"
came forward last
week and we can
all sleep better at
night.
HARRY
Although Mark
KI RS BAUM Felt — No. 2 at
the FBI in the early
Columnist
1970s — led

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reporters Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein from a second-rate burgla-
ry to the halls of the White House,
the story of his identity captured our
interest for about a week, which is
called a story with legs ... these days.
The story broke when Felt, now 91
and in frail health, fessed up to
Vanity Fair in an upcoming inter-
view.
He paused briefly to wave to
reporters and photographers from
the doorway of his home in
California last week.
Although his photo made the front
page of almost every newspaper in
the country the next day, we'll have
to wait until the issue hits the news-
stands on June 14 to hear from him.
But it will be old news by then.
For now, we get to hear from Post
reporters and editors and a slew of
Watergate burglars and their bosses.
Woodward, Bernstein and then-
Post editor-in-chief Ben Bradlee
appeared on television, rehashing
Watergate and reminding people that
"Deep Throat" was only one of many
sources on the story. Felt gave them
direction, but nothing concrete, they
said.
It was also refreshing to see that all
the president's men in Nixon's White
House hadn't lost - their edge, espe-
cially Pat Buchanan and Chuck
Colson.
Those guys got me all misty-eyed.
President Nixon's former speech-
writer and senior adviser Buchanan
referred to Felt as a snake of the first
order on weekend television, then
backed up his idea in his syndicated
column on June 6.
He called Woodward and Bernstein
"a pair of stenographers for an FBI

Harry Kirsbaum's e-mail address is
hkirsbaum@thejewishnews.com.

hack who was ratting out President
Nixon for passing him over as direc-
tor."
Felt "leaked the fruits of an honest
FBI investigation to the nest of
Nixon-haters over on 15th Street,
then lied about it for 30 years,"
Buchanan wrote. "Why did Felt lie?
Because Felt knew he had disgraced
himself and dishonored everything
an FBI agent should stand for. He
didn't want his old comrades to
know what a snake he had been."
According to Buchanan, Nixon
would have won the Vietnam War,
but the "Liberal Establishment" used
Watergate to destroy his presidency
— and they brought down Southeast
Asia as a bonus.
This is the same guy who won-
dered last month whether World War
II was worth fighting for.
Chuck Colson, former Nixon
hatchet man, also took to the air last
week with his deep thoughts on
Mark Felt.
"Hero is not the word I would
use," Colson said to the Fox and
Friends crew. "I'll give him the bene-
fit of the doubt that he was acting
nobly, that he really was concerned
about the welfare of the country —
but he should have walked into a
grand jury, he should have walked
into the head of the FBI and said,
`We gotta go see the president.'
"I know everybody said there was a
paranoid attitude in Washington in
those days," he said. "That's a lot of
nonsense."
Wrong, John, paranoia wasn't just
an attitude in Washington in those
days, it was a way of life. Ask anyone
on the president's enemies list.
What's nonsense is what Colson
said next.
After watching schoolchildren
being asked the night before about
"Deep Throat's" role in Watergate,
Colson said, "all the kids said Felt
did the right thing, that it was hero-
ic.
"When you begin to teach young
people that the ends justifies the
means, we're in big trouble," said
Colson, who serves as head of Prison
Fellowship Ministries. "This is a mis-
take I made in my life ... don't make
it.
Sorry, Chuck, the mistake you
made doesn't equal anything Felt did.
He may have ratted you out, but you
broke the law. ❑