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so it looks like a guy is claiming to be "Deep Throat," the Watergate informant. He's W. Mark Felt, a former top FBI official. Vanity Fair has the article online, I assume it's not yet on the newsstand. Intersting. I wonder if it is him, why he is coming forward? Maybe since he's old, he wants to make sure somebody knows before he dies.

Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post, the paper that Deep Throat told about Nixon's coverup, has an insider's view of it on his blog. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the writers of the articles, said they wouldn't reveal the indentity of Deep Throat until after his (or her?) death, but I guess that doesn't preclude Deep Throat from doing it himself. Here's another Post article.

Update: Woodward, Bernstein, and their editor Ben Bradlee confirmed that Felt is Deep Throat. Pretty crazy! So now we know.