Ben Stein on Deep Throat (We both think Felt is a scumbag)

This is probably the best "Deep Throat" commentary I have seen so far. Personally, I think the guy is, basically, a traitor to his country. He must have felt it was pretty important to do, since he didn't do it for fame or fortune it seems, but from here it looks like he was a government official who gave out secrets to journalists. Pretty damn traitorous, regardless of the context.

Oh, now I remember. He lied. He was a politician who lied. How remarkable...He lied so he could stay in office and keep his agenda of peace going. That was his crime. He was a peacemaker and he wanted to make a world where there was a generation of peace. And he succeeded...That is his legacy. He was a peacemaker. He was a lying, conniving, covering up peacemaker. He was not a lying, conniving drug addict like JFK, a lying, conniving war starter like LBJ, a lying, conniving seducer like Clinton -- a lying, conniving peacemaker. That is Nixon's kharma.

Stein does go a, um shall we say a tad overboard in his conclusion:

So, this is the great boast of the enemies of Richard Nixon, including Mark Felt: they made the conditions necessary for the Cambodian genocide. If there is such a thing as kharma, if there is such a thing as justice in this life of the next, Mark Felt has bought himself the worst future of any man on this earth. And Bob Woodward is right behind him, with Ben Bradlee bringing up the rear. Out of their smug arrogance and contempt, they hatched the worst nightmare imaginable: genocide.