Rattle wrote: ] ] The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a ] ] former number-two official at the FBI, was "Deep Throat," ] ] the secretive source who provided information that helped ] ] unravel the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s and ] ] contributed to the resignation of president Richard M. ] ] Nixon. ] ] ] The confirmation came from Bob Woodward and Carl ] ] Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who broke ] ] the Watergate story, and their former top editor, ] ] Benjamin C. Bradlee. The three spoke after Felt's family ] ] and Vanity Fair magazine identified the 91-year-old Felt, ] ] now a retiree in California, as the long-anonymous source ] ] who provided crucial guidance for some of the newspaper's ] ] groundbreaking Watergate stories. Interesting from the perspective of history. VERY BORING from the perspective of life - since I wasn't even a twinkle in my parents eyes at this point in American history. RE: Washington Post Confirms Felt Is 'Deep Throat' |