After more than 30 years of silence, the most famous anonymous source in American history, Deep Throat, has identified himself to a reporter at Vanity Fair.The revelation was not nearly as fun as I hoped it would be. I was hoping for Al Haig, but I believed "Deep Throat" was really a composite of different sources.
W. Mark Felt, 91, an assistant director at the FBI in the 1970s, has told reporter John D. O'Connor that he is "the man known as Deep Throat."
I haven't seen a quote yet from G Gordon Liddy whether he's still willing to kill for the ex-president. And, of course, Woodward and Bernstein could still come out and say, nope, wrong guy.
Look for lots of nostalgia articles to come out, parallels between Bush and Nixon, the War on Terror and the Vietnam War, etc.
Funny how the latter half of the 1970s is never looked back on as kindly by journalists. Who was President again? Oh yeah, this guy.
Update: Apparently I'm not the only one disappointed. Deep Throat really needed to be someone more exciting to have kept his identity hidden this long.
