This pretty cut Warren off at the legs. It was obvious that it wasn't because his reporters were excellent at crafting their trade; rather, it was obvious the Post wouldn't have gotten anywhere without the assistance of a top guy at the FBI.
It's been pretty much downhill financially ever since for the Post, and it wins fewer awards than ever now that the MSM "peer group" knows (or thinks it knows) that the Posties were phonies.
Alternatively we can believe that Felt lied about his role ~ and that would be that he lied to the grave that he was even significant in it.
My money's on Felt throwing himself on his sword on behalf of his old friends and supervisors J. Edgar Hoover and Richard M. Nixon!
Kind of a last horselaugh at a building full of perverts, dopers and wastrals ~ owned by a bloated plutocrat.
I can't figure out how that would be useful.