Inside Deep Throat

Arguably the biggest, most well-kept secret of the 20th century was revealed today, and not by some guy on Free Republic either, but by ABC News:

WASHINGTON May 31, 2005 — Breaking a silence of 30 years, former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward Tuesday as Deep Throat, the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

Within hours, the paper confirmed his claim.

"It's the last secret" of the story, said Ben Bradlee, the paper's top editor at the time the riveting political drama played out three decades ago.

The piece is kind of fascinating, well worth reading. I'm just shocked that there was a time when the #2 guy at the FBI was a fellow Jew.

And speaking from experience, I'd gather that he's the only Jew ever to be nicknamed "Deep Throat."

That's as close as I get to a dick joke, people, so yuk it up.

...by the way, lest anyone think that this revelation will inspire current Administration officials to come forward and be whistle-blowers, the top headline at cnn.com yesterday was "Is Paris Hilton ready for marriage?" See, for that whole Watergate scenario to work, you need a journalist.