“He knows everything there is to know in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything.”

—  W. Mark Felt

H.R. Haldeman, White House chief of staff statement about Felt's suspected leaks in 1972 to Richard Nixon, to which Nixon replied, "Why in the hell would he do that?"

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Whistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal 1913–2008

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