Deep Throat: Why he did it -- Less Than Noble Reasons

Here's an interesting article on, Mark Felt, better known as Deep Throat:

Meanwhile, around him in the Washington headquarters, the aging Hoover's internal manoeuvres to maintain his tight control of the organization became ever more Byzantine. In 1971, in a palace coup designed to outflank his too-ambitious associate director, William Sullivan, Hoover created a new post for Felt which in effect made him the organization's third-ranking officer. Since Clyde Tolson, Hoover's deputy, was seriously ill and frequently absent, it put Felt in charge of the organization's day-to-day operations.

There followed a train of events that could have been scripted for a bad melodrama. On 2 May 1972 Hoover, aged 77, was unexpectedly found dead of a heart attack at his Washington home. Felt saw himself as the obvious successor and was stunned when the White House announced the following day that President Nixon had nominated assistant attorney-general Patrick Gray - regarded as a supine flunky of the administration - to take over. Then, with the FBI still in shock over Gray's hostile opening moves, five men were arrested on 17 June for breaking into the offices rented by the Democratic party in the Watergate complex.

Seems like he became the Watergate leak because he got passed over for a promotion.

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Roy Marvin Kronk - the meter reader who found Caylee Anthony

It's amazing how fast the Internets work, because before Roy Marvin Kronk has even held his press conference about finding the body of Caylee Anthony, the poor little girl murdered by her mother Casey Anthony, people have already dug up that:

Roy Marvin Kronk has lived in MD, TN, and Key West FL. His partner’s obit refers to him as a “life companion” but other sources say they were married.

And

Roy Cronk is from TN. His departed partner died 7/30/07. They were not married.

What else is there to know? Do we need to know that? Roy Marvin Kronk is certainly not a suspect. It's obvious who did it and it's obvious that the police department down there in Florida is incompetent.

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