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'Deep Throat' ID confirmed
Rampant:
yeah, weird code name.
I really dont see what the big deal is. It's all over the news, however, who cares?
i mean its good and all that they busted nixon for what he did, but nobody really cares how they did it, or who supplied the information.
WestCoasta:
Deep Throat? I guess this guy was some kinda dick sucker
Javier:
--- Quote from: Rampant on June 01, 2005, 02:42:23 PM ---
I really dont see what the big deal is. It's all over the news, however, who cares?
--- End quote ---
Seem like people that were alive during those times do care. It was one of those two year scandals that was being uncovered little by little
MANBEARPIG.:
Thats one of those legendary controversies even tho none of us never knew or cared about it before now, well most of us at least, it was still a huge controversy and subject to investigations for the last 30 years.
Matrix Heart:
I'm not forcing you guys to care :) but I do care...sorry I took AP Gov/US History :D
Deep Throat is the pseudonym that was given to a secret source who leaked information about the involvement of U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration in the events that came to be known as the Watergate scandal. Deep Throat was an important source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who together wrote a series of articles on the scandal that played a decisive role in exposing the misdeeds of the Nixon administration. The scandal would eventually lead to the resignation of President Nixon as well as prison terms for White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy and presidential adviser John Ehrlichman. In 2005 W. Mark Felt, a former Associate Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, revealed his identity as Deep Throat.
Howard Simons, the managing editor of the Washington Post at the time, dubbed the secret informant "Deep Throat," an allusion to a pornographic movie of the same name that had become a cultural phenomenon during the period; it was also a play on the term "deep background", used in journalism to mean information provided by a secret source that may not be reported directly. Deep Throat came to public attention when Woodward and Bernstein wrote All The President's Men, a book also made into an Academy Award-winning movie. In the movie, Deep Throat was portrayed by Hal Holbrook.
The identity of Deep Throat was one of the biggest mysteries of American politics and journalism in recent times, and the source of more than 30 years of much public curiosity. Woodward and Bernstein insisted they would not reveal his identity until he died. However, on May 31, 2005, after Felt himself revealed his identity in a Vanity Fair magazine article, Woodward, Bernstein, and former Post executive editor Ben Bradlee confirmed that Felt was the Watergate source known as Deep Throat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_%28Watergate%29
Deep Throat from X-Files :D
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