Hoover Tactics Breed Deep Throat

An initial thought on Mark Felt being Deep Throat is that Nixon was turned over by a member of the only group of people who had more dirt on their hands than Nixon. The FBI , Hoover and Hoover’s self selected top FBI officials like Felt’s had been practicing the tactics of investigating people for political gain for years. They had also been using break-ins and tapings for years to gain the info they sought from political groups, as well as politicians and civilian citizens. The FBI covert campaigns had gone all the way up to the Presidency in prior administrations and now we know it went all the way up to Nixon's as well.

Kind of ironic that the guy who turned Nixon over was one of the few government officials in Washington who had a dirtier history than the one Nixon would earn from Watergate.