Associated Press
Sunday, October 16, 2005

FULLERTON, Calif., Oct. 15 -- Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who was jailed for protecting a confidential source, presented an award Saturday to perhaps the most famous confidential source -- the man known as "Deep Throat."

The award presented by the California First Amendment Coalition was accepted by Nick Jones, the grandson of former FBI associate director W. Mark Felt, 92, because Felt could not attend. Jones said he sees his grandfather as a figure comparable to Batman, "one of those crime-fighters that come and go in the night."

Miller lauded Felt as a courageous man who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who did not divulge Felt's identity until he and his family revealed it earlier this year, uncover the secrets of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.

In remarks dealing with her own case, Miller said that she still would be behind bars if her source had not personally "called me in jail to say he really, really wanted me to testify."