Deeper Motives

For those who aren't Deep-Throated out yet (and I, for one, am nowhere close to being tired of this story), Slate's Jack Schafer does a terrific job of laying out Mark Felt's real motivations for turning into the world's most famous whistleblower. It ain't pretty, and it's nobody's fairy tale of good triumphing over evil, but then again, these things rarely are.