The identity of Deep Throat, the secret source “whose insider guidance was vital to The Washington Post’s groundbreaking coverage of the Watergate scandal,” has now been revealed. Many call him a hero but Pat Buchanan…well, he had other words for him.
On Scarborough Country, 5/31/05: “Well, I don`t think he is a hero at all…[H]ere`s a man who has been entrusted with a high honor, deputy chief of the FBI, sneaking around at night, handing out materials he got from a legitimate investigation to ‘The Washington Post,’ Nixon`s enemy, in the middle of a campaign…I think it was payback. I think it was a nasty thing to do on his part…But let me say this. The people that went after Richard Nixon day in and day out to use anything to bring him down hated him long before Watergate…And they were doing anything to bring him down.”
On MSNBC, 5/31/05: “Well, I wouldn’t used the term ‘traitor,’ because I don’t know that he was ever a Nixon loyalist…Yes, I think he’s sneaky. And I think he`s dishonorable in what he did…He’s buttering up The Washington Post, which is the most hostile institution to the president. He’s undercutting the president in the middle of a campaign…Well, look, it brought down a president. And I think that cost us Vietnam, frankly.”
On Countdown with Keith Olbermann, 5/31/05: “And so his motivation, I think, is not good. His deeds are dishonorable, if not criminal. And I don’t know what he thought he was doing for his country. My sense is he was probably ashamed of what he did.”
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