With the identity of Deep Throat revealed, everyone in the political world seems to have developed an opinion on his actions. There are those that hail him as a hero, a whistle-blower of sorts on the Nixon administration, while others find his actions to be criminal.
Pat Buchanan called him a snake on MSNBC's Hardball. (Transcript)
Buchanan said, "Yes, I think he's sneaky. And I think he's dishonorable in what he did."
On the same program Tom Brokaw discussed the journalistic aspects of the case, saying that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein had reinvented investigative journalism when other journalists were "fat, dumb and happy in the press room."
The Washington Post blogs have been active with discussion of the motivation behind the family coming out with the information now. Boston Globe columnist Eileen McNamara called the family's motives "self-serving." Mark Felt's daughter Joan did admit to discussing how they could use money from revealing his identity to help the family.
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