{"id":3313,"date":"2005-05-31T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/31\/deep-throat-revealed\/"},"modified":"2005-05-31T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T19:44:00","slug":"deep-throat-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/deep-throat-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Throat revealed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMark Felt, age 91, says he was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050531\/ap_on_re_us\/deep_throat;_ylt=AiPxL9HQ.d2_Em559O0g38l34T0D;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl\">Deep Throat:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>SANTA ROSA, Calif. &#8211; A former FBI official claims he was &#8220;Deep Throat,&#8221; the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon&#8217;s Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got no reason to doubt him, but I&#8217;d like to hear it from Woodward.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/commentary\/content\/articles\/050530roco02\">Vanity Fair story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: OK, Woodward has confirmed Felt was DT. He&#8217;d been coy about it because he&#8217;s got a book to sell. Given J. Edgar&#8217;s use of FBI information to keep politicians in line throughout his career, the leaking of info by the FBI&#8217;s number 2 isn&#8217;t so weird, is it?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Felt, age 91, says he was Deep Throat: SANTA ROSA, Calif. &#8211; A former FBI official claims he was &#8220;Deep Throat,&#8221; the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon&#8217;s Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday. I&#8217;ve got no reason to doubt him, but I&#8217;d like to hear it from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/deep-throat-revealed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deep Throat revealed?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Rr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}