Deep Throat goes public.

[zotz]

Well, there's something I didn't expect. The BBC are reporting that former deputy FBI chief Mark Felt has claimed to have been Woodward and Bernstein's secret source on the Watergate cover-up, and Bob Woodward has now confirmed it.

This is interesting not just because we now know who put the skids under Nixon et al, but because for a while Woodward and Bernstein were being accused of having invented the idea of a secret source to spice up their story (perhaps with the implicit goal of undermining their achievement in order to help the effort to rehabilitate Nixon). Not so, it seems.

Also I noticed today (after checking on what the Varyag's up to - it was moved to a dry-dock at the beginning of the month, apparently for major reconstruction) that not only have the States built an aircraft carrier named after Ronald Reagan, their next is apparently to be named after George HW Bush.

Comments

[grendelis.livejournal.com]

OK, I have to ask... how did they come up with the name Deep Throat?

I mean, were those guys/times really that naive? Or is it just in line with a culture where men can be called Randy without anyone laughing?

[zotz]

My guess from reading the Wikipedia article would be that it was originally an internal Washington Post joke that became public only after it was well-established. I would guess - though not having read them I don't really know - that the original articles published at the time didn't mention having a secret source inside the government.

[grendelis.livejournal.com]

not so much a bum licker, more a cock sucker then. yep, that's the level of newspaper humour. ;)