Ep. 44: Deep Throat Was No Hero

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

Nebulous Media

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Ever since former FBI Associate Director Mark Felt outed himself as the source for the Washington Post's Watergate reporting, he has been praised as a kind of dissident hero. Over time, we've forgotten that Mark Felt's role in authorizing warrantless surveillance of American citizens. Eli's guest is historian Tim Naftali. Time Stamps: 00:16 Monologue 17:30 Interview with Tim Naftali Questions? Comments? Ideas? Contact us at [email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the re-education.
0:03.0	Our topic today is Rethinking Watergate, and my guest is Historian and New York University,
0:10.0	Professor Tim Nefftali.
0:19.0	His whispered words helped topple a president.
0:24.0	But for three decades, Mark Felt remained in the shadows,
0:27.6	the unknown answer to the nation's most enduring political mystery.
0:31.4	Who was deep throat?
0:33.4	Felt was second in command at the FBI in the early 70s
0:36.4	when the press began asking questions about the Watergate break-in.
0:40.1	We just heard the news report of the death of Deep Throat, the key source for Woodward and Bernstein's explosive investigative series that helped bring down Richard Nixon.
0:49.3	Today, this man, Mark Felt, is generally considered a dissident hero.
0:56.6	He violated his oath as a senior FBI official by leaking details of an ongoing investigation to the press, but he did this for a more
1:02.3	noble cause to expose a corrupt precedent. Here is a clip from a 2017 movie starring Liam Neeson
1:09.2	about Felt's role in the Watergate scandal.
1:12.4	Here's what we know. The men who broke into the Watergate are not the end of this thing,
1:16.9	but the beginning.
1:18.6	No more interviews with White House people without permission.
1:22.0	What?
1:22.5	We put the investigation to bed in two days.
1:25.4	The director of the FBI.
1:27.4	Ordered the FBI to stop its own investigation.
1:29.3	The nation tonight is in the midst of what may be the most critical constitutional crisis in its history.
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