A man who didn't want to be lionized

With the ensuing hubbub about Frost/Nixon, it is interesting to consider the story of Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat). (Pat Buchanan--"On the Death of Deep Throat") From the article:

. . . the passing of Mark Felt, associate director of the FBI in the later Nixon years, lately exposed as "Deep Throat," the source for the Woodward-Bernstein stories, calls forth some rebuttal to the tributes lavished upon Felt as the honest lawman who saved our republic.

When the Watergate break-in was traced to the Committee to Reelect the President, Felt was put in charge of the FBI investigation. Almost immediately, he began to leak to Woodward.

Felt, it is said, was justified, as the White House was interfering with his investigation. False.

This is a moral cloak belatedly cast over more base motives.

While I think that Richard Nixon abused his power as president, I think Felt's story--when considered in proper context, well illustrates some selective lionization by the MSM.