CNN's Howard Kurtz talks about the importance of Mark Felt in the Watergate investigation.
W. Mark Felt, who leaked information to reporters under the moniker, "Deep Throat," about the Watergate break-in, died Thursday at the age of 95, sources told CNN.
Mark Felt died Thursday. Using the name "Deep Throat," he helped expose President Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal.
Cutting through the bull. It's hard to think of anyone who gave those words more meaning than Mark Felt.
Mark Felt – the anonymous source who toppled Richard Nixon's presidency – was 95
W. Mark Felt, better known as 'Deep Throat' from Watergate fame, has died. CNN's Fredricka Whitfield reports.
Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward relied on FBI insider W. Mark Felt as a reliable but anonymous source for their stories on the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974.
Last year's revelation that former FBI man Mark Felt was "Deep Throat," the source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein expose the nefariousness of the Nixon administration, gives the new Two-Disc Special Edition of the political thriller "All the President's Men" a fresh context.
W. Mark Felt, better known as "Deep Throat," has sold book and film rights to his life story for undisclosed sums to PublicAffairs and Universal Pictures, the companies said Thursday.
The Bush administration prosecutes government officials who leak sensitive information, even when that information is not classified.
Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, recalling the stinging criticism he and the network received after airing a controversial story on President Bush's National Guard service, admits he was a victim of his "own shortcomings."
Mark Felt, finally revealed as the "Deep Throat" who divulged the Watergate scandal, is wearing the hero's laurel 32 years later.
"As he recently told my mother, 'I guess people used to think Deep Throat was a criminal. But now they think he's a hero," says W. Mark Felt's grandson, Nick Jones.
The revelation that retired FBI official W. Mark Felt was "Deep Throat," the famous confidential source in the Watergate scandal, ended more than three decades of speculation and drew new attention to his role in the story.
It turns out legendary Watergate source "Deep Throat" is a 91-year-old retiree living in Santa Rosa, California.
Nick Jones, the grandson of W. Mark Felt, delivered a statement Tuesday on Felt's admission to being "Deep Throat" in the Watergate investigation which brought down the Nixon Administration 31 years ago:
The FBI's former second-in-command, W. Mark Felt, has told his family that he is "Deep Throat," the source of Washington Post stories about the Watergate scandal that's captivated Washington for more than 30 years,Vanity Fair magazine reported Tuesday.
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