This article examines the astounding revelation that Deep Throat, the anonymous source that brought down the Nixon Presidency, was Mark Felt, the man who ran the FBI during the Watergate Scandal. Was Mark Felt a hero or a villain? Thanks to the recent publication of Bob Woodward’s The Secret Man in combination with historical case law, we now have more historical evidence about what motivated Felt and how he reacted to his own legal misfortunes. This article examines this record and shows that categorizing Felt along the hero/villain continuum is not an easy task, but argues that this type of historical analysis is vitally important to questions of what we should tolerate and expect from our public officials.
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机译：本文探讨了令人震惊的启示，即深陷喉咙的匿名消息来源使尼克松担任总统职位的人马克·费尔特（Mark Felt）是水门丑闻期间的联邦调查局局长。马克·费尔特是英雄还是反派？多亏了鲍勃·伍德沃德（Bob Woodward）的最新著作“ The Secret Man”结合历史判例法，我们现在有了更多的历史证据，证明了毛毡的动机是什么以及他如何应对自己的法律不幸。本文检查了该记录，并表明将毛毡沿英雄/反派连续体分类不是一件容易的事，但认为这种历史分析类型对于我们应该容忍和期望政府官员提出的问题至关重要。
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