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...The Vanity Fair article said the author of the piece, John D. O'Connor, a practicing lawyer in San Francisco, connected with the family after he met a family member at a party. Mr. O'Connor said in an interview yesterday that he hadn't doubted Mr. Felt's mental competence. "This is not an Alzheimer's guy," he said, adding that Mr. Felt is "very much with it in the present." Mr. Felt appeared briefly before TV cameras yesterday, but only family members spoke. Mr. O'Connor said the family had no definitive plans but would review a flood of book and movie offers that...

You just knew Today was going to revel in the Deep Throat story this morning. When the face of your beloved party is the dour Harry Reid, the tautly-stretched Nancy Pelosi and the 'expansive' Teddy Kennedy, any chance to switch the subject to the good old days of bashing bad old Richard Nixon must be seized. In fairness, Andrea Mitchell, reporting the story, made a balanced presentation. Among other things she raised the possibility that the 91-year old Felt, who has suffered a stroke, might have been incapable of truly making the decision to reveal his identity as Deep Throat,...

W. Mark Felt illegally disclosed confidential information to the MSM pertaining to a federal investigation simply to try the Nixon administration in the court of public opinion. Felt was nothing more than an over zealous and disgruntled G-man with an axe to grind. The guy was passed over for the coveted position of FBI Director General and committed a criminal offense in order to exact his revenge. What I find more disturbing is the fact that the MSM has literally been in a tizzy of perpetual orgasm today over the outing of what they perceive to be as one...

In 1999, a teenager broke the story of Deep Throat's identity as W. Mark Felt in a high school history term paper. He got a B on it. Or "something ridiculous like that. The teacher is...an idiot in my opinion," said Chase Culeman-Beckman to the Journal News of New York in 1999. How did he figure it out? Chase Culeman-Beckman had attended a posh Long Island summer camp with Carl Bernstein's son Jacob roughly a decade earlier and had heard Jacob (then all of 8) popping off learnedly about "Mark Felt" as Deep Throat. "We entered into a very precocious...

Antihero Felt Admits To Be Deep Throat, Big Leaker - Washington Post Glad To Take Leaks. I still do not know who Deep Throat is, although a man who previously denied being the spy for the Washington Post is now stating that he is, indeed, the said person of interest. It has been reported that his family wants him to gain some fame for himself in his latter years - and some cash for themselves, today. Mark Felt, the man who will be known as a Richard Clarke prototype, because they both were passed over for promotion and retaliated for...

NEW YORK As news about the identity of fabled Watergate source--he is W. Mark Felt, the former FBI official--spread today, journalists began to weigh in. Here is a selection, to be updated: Monica Crowley of MSNBC, former aide to Richard M. Nixon: “The Deep Throat name did come up during our conversations and Nixon threw out a couple of names- but even he didn't know for sure who Deep Throat was. “Nixon had a couple of theories himself. But Mark Felt's name did come up repeatedly while we were talking, but never in a serious context in terms of Felt...

Next month sees the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, and a fresh flurry of books and articles “unmasking” the man referred to by cognoscenti simply as “Throat”. The former White House counsel John Dean, who testified against Nixon, claims he will identify him on the Internet on June 17. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Gaines is offering A Finder's Guide to Deep Throat, the fruit of two years’ study by a team of journalism students which he compares to the Warren Report. Deep Throat, Gaines insists, is “a middle-level White House official. It’s not anybody a lot of people...

Just in on ABC News. He and his family admit it through his lawyer. Will be in upcoming Vanity Fair.

Others may have sympathized on learning that Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Middle East studies at Columbia University, felt threatened by a graduate student at his own university, but not me. The incident began late on Sept. 27, 2004, when Victor Luria, a Ph.D. candidate in genetics and a former soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, wrote Dabashi an e-mail taking strong exception to what Dabashi had written about the IDF in an article, "For a Fistful of Dust: A Passage to Palestine," he published in the Egyptian newspaper, Al-Ahram. In response, Luria wrote to Dabashi: I have rarely seen...