So it appears that an ex-FBI official living in California claims he was ‘Deep Throat’.
A retired FBI official living in Santa Rosa says he is Deep Throat, the anonymous source who fed Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein information that helped them expose President Richard Nixon’s Watergate cover-up.
W. Mark Felt, 91, was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s and is among several former officials whose names have circulated for years as possibly being Deep Throat. A Post Web site devoted to the Watergate scandal describes Felt as having had a reputation among reporters as someone who would take their calls.
For some reason, I just find it hard to care. The 70s are over, except on VH-1. Knowing who Deep Throat is won’t change how people feel about what he did. That his lawyer made the claim in an article in Vanity Fair just makes it look like cheap hucksterism. That Woodward and Bernstein will neither confirm nor deny that Felt was Deep Throat makes it look worse. Can’t everyone just fess up and move on?
