Politics: April 2008 Archives

The New Nixon Blog: Busy Deep Throat

Why isn't Weather Underground bomber and Obama pal William Ayers rotting in prison or pushing up daisies? Because an FBI official named Mark Felt authorized illegal break-ins to gather evidence for his prosecution. That's Mark Felt, aka "Deep Throat," Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate source. The biggest irony: Richard Nixon testified on Felt's behalf when he was on trial for those break-ins.