Inexplicably ignored when it was released last year, (“The Shape of Water” – really?) the telling of a very important piece of hidden history, “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House” completes, with “The Post”, and “All the President’s Men”, another essential point of view of the US as it was in 1972, and as it is now again.
Compare Liam Neeson’s Felt with Hal Holbrook’s “Deep Throat” in “All the Presidents..”.
The “American dream” will always remain a pipe dream for 99% of the dreamers.
Very heroic, but secret agencies without accountability are profundly undemocratic. An agency that grossiers in compromising facts about the lives of people in power is dangerous, not just with Hoover at the top. Witness the swift retribution visited on Eliot Spitzer (prostitutes) shortly after his oped in the Washington Post (Feb 2008) about how the federal government frustrated the attempts of the 50 governors to do something about the mortgage fraud going on in the run up to the GFC in 2008.