"Deep Throat" motives not altruistic

[Zen Democrat]

6. Or what he failed to expose. After all, John Dean was the real whistleblower in Watergate.

Felt was doing his own dirty-word and Watergate would have been exposed without him. According to Woodward, all Felt did was confirm or deny, or give him a right-track, wrong-track. John Dean went to the Grand Jury with his incredible memory for recalling conversations verbatim, and put Nixon in the crosshairs of the investigation. The secret tapes nailed him, and for that Alexander Butterfield spilled the beans during sworn testimony, in response to a question from Fred Thompson in closed session. Thompson had asked that one question that he didn't know the answer to, and it blew up in his face.

But, if truth be told, and it is, the guy most responsible for opening Watergate as the scandal it became, was burglar and former CIA AND FBI agent James W. McCord. When McCord told Judge Sirica that the burglars were being paid to take the fall and keep quiet, it was all over but the shouting.

So, I believe, McCord, Dean and Butterfield played a much greater part in taking down Nixon than did some Deep Throat trying to advance his own career.