Deep Throat was a heavy drinker. Mark Felt was not. Mark Felt stoppped smoking in 1943 according to James on Fox News with Brit Hume. He thinks there were many sources not just Felt!
Despite the admission today, many questions still need answers indeed.
I never considered it too big a deal who deep throat was, personally and know more about it right now than I ever have - I'm just posting stuff I'm seeing for the first time. ... I DO believe Nixon got screwed because he was trying to be overprotective of his staff - and that impeaching him was way over the top. I would have rather the Senate/House had looked for the treasonous leakers and stomp on them, but since that was never going to happen (and it hasn't and won't) it was ridiculous to be worried about this, and I haven't. If this was FBI leaking, as now appears possible, for whatever reason, I'm very angry they did not go this route - imprisoning the reporters for however long it took.
I imagine it possible that the reporters had Felt as a primary source, and decided they needed to hang on him a few miscellaneous items they had dug up elsewhere to throw people off his trail as well as to avoid revealing other secondary sources - and it sounds that would be completely consistent with everything but their "not a composite" contention - but right now, all I care about is using this against the Old Media louses if at all possible.
I suspect that within days, we'll hear that DT was partially a composite, but Felt was the primary personality.
Like I say, though, I'm far more hopeful of usint this as a way to demean "journalists" and their "professors" and "schools" than I am for the story, now. It would also vindicate Nixon's judgement - and that, I've always respected even when that resulted in his getting fried, essentially, merely for being loyal to his friends.
Hillary was on the independent counsel staff for drawing up impeachment articles on Nixon, right?
Could this be Woodward's way of diffusing any interest in Watergate? Revealing Deep Throat? That was really the only interest left.
Kinda shifts blame to Felt so you can't really point o Hillary and say, "she was there - she took him down".