From The Washington Post: The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two official at the FBI, was “Deep Throat,” the secretive source who provided information that helped unravel the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s and contributed to the resignation of president Richard M. Nixon. The confirmation came from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate story, and their former top editor, Benjamin C. Bradlee. The three spoke after Felt’s family and Vanity Fair magazine identified the 91-year-old Felt, now a retiree in California, as the long-anonymous source who provided crucial guidance for some of the newspaper’s groundbreaking Watergate stories.
Washington Post Confirms Felt Is ‘Deep Throat’

As one of the great mysteries of the 1970’s, I have mixed feelings about now knowing the identity of “Deep Throat.” On the one hand, it was an adrenal rush to read that article, but on the other hand, there are few enough mysteries in this crazy world that mean so little, and so much.

As some of you know, I am suffering from an…odd medical condition; nothing life-threatening, just really annoying, and it’s slowing me down considerably. My ENT couldn’t find anything obviously wrong, so I was referred to the local pulmonary practice here in York.

The first contact I had with this WellSpan division (I’m beginning to think we should stop calling them “practices” and start calling them what they really are; profit-center divisions of large corporate entities) was a packet of information they sent, which included a cover page literally covered with yellow highlighter telling me what I “must” and “will” do. Gotta tell you, I kinda hate having people I am paying for service treat me like I’m either an idiot incapable of understanding simple English, or a sheep who needs to be lead; the whole, “Do this my way” cruft we’re taking from companies we pay is beginning to annoy me. But that wasn’t the deal-breaker…

There was also a HCFA waver form, holding WellSpan and the practice harmless for any privacy releases.

Yipe.
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