News: Mark Felt, Hero or Traitor?

How can anyone ask such a question, as MSNBC and others are doing? Yes, loyalty to one's employer -- esp. the President -- is a high trust. But allegiance to the truth is always a higher obligation -- unless national security is threatened -- and here it was not. In fact, Mark Felt upheld our constitutional principles and the rule of law after Nixon had broken them. Nixon left office in disgrace in order to save the country from a crisis of his own making. Felt, Woodward and Bernstein are heroes for their courage and integrity -- which served as a highwater mark for all journalism done since then (esp. in these dismal times for the profession) and an inspiration for all the journalists (including me) who came after them.