:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::

:: 6.01.2005 ::

:: re THE REAL DEEP THROAT ::

Ex-FBI official Felt is 'Deep Throat' - Wash Post
Wired News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI deputy director Mark Felt is "Deep Throat," the legendary source who leaked Watergate scandal secrets to the Washington Post and helped bring down President Richard Nixon, the newspaper said on Tuesday.

Bob Woodward, one of the Washington Post reporters who broke stories on key elements of the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon's August 1974 resignation, confirmed Felt was the source after a Vanity Fair magazine report said he had admitted his role, the Post said on its Web site.

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NPR (audio)

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Bush Anxious to Learn More of Deep Throat
Washington Post

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said on Wednesday the disclosure that the former No. 2 official at the FBI was Watergate's "Deep Throat" source caught him by surprise and he's anxious to learn more details about his relationship with the news media.

"It's hard for me to judge" whether former deputy FBI Director Mark Felt provided a valuable public service or acted improperly, Bush told reporters.

"I'm learning more about the situation," he said.

Felt's revelation that he was the source for The Washington Post's reporting that helped to bring down the presidency of Richard Nixon in the early 1970s "caught me by surprise," Bush said. "It's a brand new story for a lot of us who have been wondering for a long time who he was."

"For those of us who grew up -- got out of college in the late '60s -- the Watergate story was a relevant story. And a lot of us have always wondered who Deep Throat might have been. And the mystery was solved yesterday," said Bush, 58. "It's a brand new story."

"I'm looking forward to reading about it, reading about his relationship with the news media," Bush said.

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