Today Show *VIDEO LINK* parts 2-4 of 9 "Deep throat"

[underpants]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/?ta=y

Discussion here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3762540

[whistle]

1. This quote from page three of the article in the link.....

....I think shows the poisonous and dangerous atmosphere of the Nixon White House, especially when Watergate began to threaten Richard Nixon's legacy as president:

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"Is he Catholic?" Nixon asked. Told by Haldeman that Felt was Jewish, Nixon replied, "(Expletive), (the bureau) put a Jew in there?" To which Haldeman responded, "Well that could explain it."
Contrary to their belief, Felt is not Jewish.

On Feb. 28, 1973, Nixon and Dean again tagged Felt as the potential leaker. (Felt) was, Dean told Nixon, "the only person that knows" such details. But Nixon was skeptical. No one would risk his career to become an informant.

According to a tape recording from that day, Nixon said, "You know, suppose that Felt comes out and unwraps the whole thing? What does that do to him? ... He's in a very dangerous situation. ... The informer is not wanted in our society. Either way, that's the one thing people do sort of line up against. They ... say, 'Well, that (expletive) informed. I don't want him around.' "

Gray was never confirmed as FBI director, and in 1973 William D. Ruckelshaus was nominated to replace him. Felt clashed repeatedly with his new boss and left the bureau later that year, well before Nixon was to leave office.

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Dangerous is an understatement. Had the Nixon White House known that Mark Felt was the real Deep Throat, he would have been ordered killed.

<on edit> Just to clarify: Had the Nixon White House known OR EVEN STRONGLY SUSPECTED that Mark Felt was the real Deep Throat, AND WAS ABLE TO CONVICE NIXON OF THAT, Felt would have been ordered killed.

[underpants]

2. Very likely

as the book and movie say "Lives could be in danger here"