The whole Watergate myth is slowly falling apart...primarily because the Watergate reporting of the 1970's doesn't work with Felt as Deep Throat.
Olberman and Dean have correctly figured out that Felt wasn't in a position to know about the gaps on Nixon's tapes in November of 1973 (something that FR has been pointing out since Felt was ID'd), for instance...if for nothing else because Felt had left the FBI back in June, and may not have even been in Washington, D.C. at that point.
And that makes it doubly difficult to explain Deep Throat's alledged 1974 meetings in D.C.
There's no real way to save Woodward and Bernstein's myth now, either. Felt wasn't a chain smoker in 1973 (he had quit in 1946). He drank martinis, not scotch. He could arrest people. He wasn't powerless. He wasn't a White House insider. He wasn't an idealist, either. Felt was a pro-Hoover man who brought Nixon down because Nixon passed Felt up for the top FBI post.
Felt was *convicted* of ordering illegal break-ins, himself. Felt has now admitted illegally leaking FBI file contents. He leaked Spiro Agnew grand jury information illegally. Felt violated his oath of office with his personal vendetta against Nixon, too.
Lets also not forget that Felt lied, lied, and lied again...as Did Woodward and Bernstein.
Oh, W&B said that Deep Throat hated the telephone, too. That's yet another lie. Felt was one of the *few* FBI agents willing to take reporters' phone calls. He had leaked before. He was a gossip. He *loved* the telephone.
But W&B said otherwise in all of the above cases.
So slowly their myth melts away...