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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (35712)	6/1/2005 3:30:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Should “Deep Throat” actually be Mark Felt, I believe that he did what he did for altruistic reasons. He, as an FBI agent and a high ranking FBI official, was probably so offended by the president’s attempts to manipulate an investigation that he saw no other way to force the investigation to go forward other than to leak information to the media, which in turn could affect public and congressional opinion to demand more, not less investigation by the FBI into the Watergate break-in. An alternate theory I've heard was that he wanted to bring Nixon down because Nixon passed over him for the #1 job in the FBI. Tim