Posted on 02/06/2005 4:44:58 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Deep Throat Close to Death It appears the Watergate source known as "Deep Throat" may be close to death, and that means that individuals name may be made public for the first time.
Reporter Bob Woodward has said in the past that he would disclose the identity of the course when that person died. Deep Throat helped Woodward and the Washington POst expose the Nixon Water gate scandal.
The Washington Post has already prepared an obituary, which means the world may soon know the secret Woodward has managed to keep for 30-years.
I have a theory that there is no "Deep Throat" except in the minds of Woodward and Bernstein. When someone else they don't like and don't agree with dies (a Republican, of course) they point their finger at some dead guy who can't defend himself. Richard Nixon was not my favorite person, but Woodward and his twisted partner are many rungs below him in my estimation.
In some circles, he is probably closer that he thinks..
Semper Fi
Did/does Pres Ford smoke ?
Forgive me, but I have a perverse hope that Pat or Alexander are close to passing on.
Neither of them are The Good Guys.
they will have lots to answer for, regardless of the truth of the deep throat fantasies.
Could be it's Ford....he was "too ill" to attend the inauguration last month.
I thought that Woodward himself stated years ago that DT was a composite of sources and not one individual.
Who can keep a secret for 30 yrs or longer?
Can't be Bush senior. He was at the Super Bowl opening and didn't look close to death. His sidekick Willie on the other hand didn't look too hot.
Ford wasn't at the Super Bowl today with Bush Sr. and Clintoon. Has anybody heard he's not in poor health? I did not hear that.
He's not dead yet.
How do we know the person is near death if we don't know who that person is?
Fred Fielding, so says Illinois U.
http://deepthroatuncovered.com/story/
After a four-year investigation, students at the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have determined the identity of Deep Throat, the most elusive, anonymous news source in history: Fred Fielding, deputy counsel to former President Richard Nixon."
Bernstein and Woodward can swear up and down that somebody is Deep Throat. Unless old Deep himself admits to it, no one will believe them.
I recall that also. It makes sense if we can believe the Woodward-Bernstein mantra that pieces of information had to be confirmed by more than one source.
But poor Deep Throat will be dead, and we'll have only Bob Woodward's word to believe
He better have some proof of his accusation.
Yeah - and more than once. Remember the '76 debates?!
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