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  Shortly after former FBI official Felt confirmed that he was Deep Throat, Colson told CNN host Aaron Brown, "I was shocked, because I knew Mark Felt well and ... I thought he was a consummate professional, an FBI man who would take the most sensitive secrets, have personal files in his control.

"I talked to him often and trusted him with very sensitive materials. So did the president. To think that he was out going around in back alleys at night ... passing information to someone – it's just so demeaning. It's terribly disappointing."

Brown asked why it wasn't "honorable," when Felt believed the FBI was being misused, to take action and go outside the agency if he thought that was the only way to deal with the situation. Colson responded:

"That's not the only way. He could have walked into Pat Gray's office, the director of the FBI, and said, here are things that are going on in the White House that need to be exposed; the president needs to know about this, needs to deal with this. Maybe you believe the president himself is involved.

"I knew Richard Nixon intimately. Richard Nixon was no paragon of moral virtue. He would not necessarily have said, oh my goodness, let me get to the bottom of this, it's terrible. But he would have known that the director of the FBI and his deputy knew these things. He of course would call an end to this kind of stuff."

Colson went on to say, "Mark Felt could have stopped Watergate. He was in the position of that kind of influence. Instead, he goes out and basically undermines the administration. I don't think that's honorable at all."

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