HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, FIRST AS FARCE, THEN AS FARCE: Scoop: CIA, FBI Informant Was WaPo Source For Russiagate Smears.

Flashback: Mark Steyn on Mark Felt aka, the WaPo’s “Deep Throat:” “Now we learn that Deep Throat was not, in fact, Alexander Haig, David Gergen, Pat Buchanan or Len Garment, but a disaffected sidekick of J. Edgar Hoover, an old-school G-man embittered at being passed over for the Director’s job when the big guy keeled over after half-a-century in harness. And, whatever Mark Felt’s motives, it wasn’t because of a distaste over illegal break-ins: at the FBI, he himself had authorized illegal burglaries at the homes of friends and family of various leftists. Oh, dear. Like the Star Wars wrap-up, ‘How Mark Felt Became Deep Throat’ feels small and mean after three decades of the awesome dramatic burden placed upon it. The nobility of the Watergate myth — in which media boomers and generations of journalism-school ethics bores have invested so much — seems cheapened and tarnished by this last plot twist.”