Mark Felt OK's Illegal Surveillance Operations

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The film goes to ridiculous lengths to isolate Deep Throat from the FBI's well-documented excesses. In this version of the story, there is no mystery to Deep Throat's motives. Mark Felt also leaked FBI secrets to Time Magazine reporter Sandy Smith. Only in this telling, it's Mark Felt's FBI rival Bill Sullivan who is to blame.

A remixed complete version of our two part Watergate series from last year: Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the legends and the myths. The 1976 film All the President’s Men remains our most authoritative account of Watergate. The film is also responsible for the myth of Deep Throat. Your host follows the myth… from 1976 to the present. Plus a reporter from the Washington Post newsroom who never made it into All the President’s Men yet did more to safeguard the free press and American democracy than Woodstein ever did.