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Originally posted by Spanky
I agree with Tyrone. I think it was just sour grapes. Anyone that could be Hoover's number two man could not be all that concerned about the integrity of the institution. He got passed up for the top job and bit back.

Indeed, it appears that "Deep Throat" was less concerned about defending democracy than about getting back at then President Richard Nixon for refusing him the directorship after Hoover's death in May 1972. So Watergate ends up as another story of powerful men undercutting one another in a squabble over turf and bruised egos.