Hurricane I

For the non-politically inclined, Deep Throat was the person who fed information about the Nixon Watergate cover-up thing to the Washington Post and created the atmosphere that led to Nixon to resigning. Obviously, this was a HUGE deal, and everyone wanted to know who the source/leak was. The WaPo refused to reveal their sorce until after all the people connected to this event were dead, (hence the practice of calling this very famously annomous person "Deep Throat") but now, this former FBI guy has announced that he is Deep Throat.

I'm linking to the Washington Post version of this story because I think it's funny that the WaPo has no comment on this story. To my mind, this means that we don't know if this guy is telling the truth or not. It's not necessarily true that if a fake Deep Throat were announced, the real Deep Throat would come forward because the real DT could be dead. Remember, the WaPo was going to release the information after EVERYONE implicated was dead, not just after DT was dead.

On the other hand, the WaPo could just be pissed that someone scooped the one story that they thought could not be scooped.

UPDATE: It's over, Mark Felt is Deep Throat. Witnesseth. I'm a little bummed. It was cooler when he wasn't a real person. I have to wait for the book.