Am i the only one that thinks that woodward and bernstein just made up this "Deep Throat" crap? Nixon has been dead for years, whoever D.T. is he or she has to be fairly old. So why wait until they die? I think there just gonna wait until someone dies and then arbitrarily claim they were Deep Throat.

Heres a link to an NRo aricle abou the other Deep Throat.

Why the hell this was in NRO i have no idea.

Howard Kurtz piece is up here. Reg. required. Its pretty much a stonewall. Too bad- I really respected Kurtz for his work during Rathergate. Im not sure this story is going anywhere myself. Im not sure we will ever see the tape either.

Could be the Pope.

It's an interesting theory . . . but then again, everyone who was connected with the Nixon whitehouse would be getting up there in age right now. Take any random sampling of men ages 65-85, and any one who fell in that sample would have a pretty high chance of having an illness.

I like it because it makes a good story, but that also makes me doubt it. Too movie of the week.

Holy cow! The Pope is Deep Throat!!!!!

It's flu season for Pete's sake, it could be anybody at this point. The flu is pretty fucking grave to an 80 year old.

Woodward and Bernstein are full of crap, everyone knows that Deep Throat is Linda Lovelace. Also, Amish = Cancer. That is all.

Some professor and his students recently deduced, with a fair amount of publicity, that it was Fred Fielding, deputy White House counsel at the time and most recently known as a member of the 9/11 commission. He would have more access than Rehnquist.

Couldn't find anything in the news about him being sick. But then again, he's not exactly a household name.

I agree with BTG Amish -- 'Deep Throut' was probably a fictitious compilation of real and imaginary sources, not a single individual. The longer the delay in realization of this, the longer W&B's careers can last. Hence the decades of charades.

Go, Ace!

Whenever I speak with Liberals re Watergate I ask them exactly what it was that Nixon did. They usually can't answer that, but they know it had to be really bad. Nixon tried to cover up the burglary, lied to the people denying his involvement in the cover and fired the special prosecutor, and he became famous for his "enemies list." Clinton's crimes, cowardice and incompetance were so numerous, so serious, and so catastropic that we shall all be paying for them for decades. By comparison, Watergate was a mere hissy fit by the media who reserved a special hatred for Nixon and were determined to get him.

Bob "The Angel of Death" Woodward has a history of attributing startling stories to the recently deceased. Remember the book "Veil" he wrote based on deathbed interviews with former CIA director William Casey? And, darn it, Bob had forgotten to turn on the tape recorder so he didn't have proof of any of it.

But he stands by his story.

I predict it will be the Pats by 3.

Oh, wait, wrong prediction thread.

To Bob Hawkins:

Wasn't there also a deathbed statement by Mitchell - to Woodward only - that was uncorroborated also, and highly doubted by those close to the man? I forget details.

I am suspicious that these "clues" were released at the same time that questions were being raised about the possibility of the elder Bush being "Deep Throat". I think these latest statements were thrown out there to deflect the media from Bush.

Fred Fielding is currently in excellent health, so unless Dean is blowing smoke (who'd think it?) it's not him.