I don't suppose it would occur to anyone here that Mark Felt could have reported his findings to L. Patrick Gray, his boss at the FBI, right? Instead, in order to express his displeasure with Nixon for not appointing him to the Director position when Hoover died, he decided to turn to the press. Now that he has "outed" he and his family will be receiving millions of dollars from book publishers.
Yep, a true patriot. He violated the oath he took when he joined the Bureau, and yet he is being hailed as a hero.