Sunday, February 06, 2005

Here's something interesting

John Dean, while decrying the use of confidential sources, reveals that news on the most famous of all confidential sources may be pending:

I have little doubt that one of my former Nixon White House colleagues is history's best-known anonymous source — Deep Throat. But I'll be damned if I can figure out exactly which one.

We'll all know one day very soon, however. Bob Woodward, a reporter on the team that covered the Watergate story, has advised his executive editor at the Washington Post that Throat is ill. And Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Post and one of the few people to whom Woodward confided his source's identity, has publicly acknowledged that he has written Throat's obituary.


Not to be too morbid, but this does lead to two strong possible candidates:



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