Marl Felt had an axe to grind, and the WaPo wanted to ‘get Nixon’. Woodward and Bernstein were hoping that Felt would die before his identity was revealed so that they could spin it in their favor. Felt spilled the beans and outed W & B as nothing but hack stenographers used as a tool for Felt to get his “revenge” on Nixon.
Exactly. Well said, fhayek.