Former FBI No. 2 was 'Deep Throat' - Woodward - Yahoo! News
I always thought that bringing down Richard Nixon was a great thing and that everyone applauded, but turns out I was wrong. Pat Buchanan was calling for this guy's arrest yesterday. (Funny that Pat never screached and howled like that we he was a suspect. Seems Pat's been turning up the "wacky" meter lately.)

But, hey, I was 9 when this all happened, and surrounded by a bunch of subversive hippies. No wonder I have such a warped view of the world. ;-)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI No. 2 Mark Felt is "Deep Throat," the legendary source who leaked Watergate scandal secrets to the Washington Post and helped bring down President Richard Nixon, journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein said on Tuesday after 30 years of secrecy.

The two Post reporters, whose aggressive stories on Watergate led to Nixon's August 1974 resignation, confirmed Felt was "Deep Throat" after Vanity Fair magazine and Felt's family members made his role public.

The unmasking of "Deep Throat" solves one of the greatest political and journalistic mysteries of modern times and ends three decades of speculation on his identity by historians and political observers.

I made the mistake again of leaving the TV on Channel 8. (I usually put on Ellen at 4, even though her show is pretty banal, and sometimes can't switch it over fast enough because I'm in the other room and there is a cat on my lap.) Rick Albin had to bitch about this because the name wasn't "big" enough. He wanted it to be a star, like Ford or Haig or Kissinger. Seriously.

Good grief. I must remember to stop watching Channel 8.