The anonymous reporter from Watergate, not the 1970 porno movie. 
Well, apparently he’s the same ex-FBI official who denied he was Deep Throat in 1999.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/31/deep.throat.ap/index.html
It’s interesting that this turned up now because I just did a report on Deep Throat.
We just finished up learning about him too. Cool read.
He’s not a ninja! Phoney! Phoney!
No and no. I wasn’t born in the 70’s and I live in Norway: all we’ve learnt about it is that Nixon spied on the Democrats and had to abdicate.
I was so thinking of MGS.
And I still don’t get what’s the huge deal about it. Yeah, public scandal and all, but it’s been thirty years and people are still talking about what a disgrace that was, as if Democrats and Republicans weren’t spying on each other right now.
It ended America’s “innocence”, pretty much. (EYEROLL.GIF LOL, as if political bosses, corruption, segregation, slavery, and assassination hadn’t?). Its a really big deal in America, so maybe to the rest of the world it isn’t. He pretty much set up his own little army, called GEMSTONE, which had different arms, all named after different gems. Each gem had its own purpose, destory african-american leaders, destory senators, find congressman who frequented hookers, wiretap democrats, and assasinate leaders. They even hired this ex-CIA hitman to lead the operation. It also all came about at the same time as Kent State and the leaking of the White Papers, so people were already angry at Nixon.
EDIT: Jesus SE, a war that ended 30 years ago defeated Kerry’s bid for the presidency, and its been close to 150 years since the Civil War, and we still shit our pants when we see the Stars and Bars. We don’t let things go
It wasn’t just a Republicans vs. Democrats fistfight, so don’t try to degrade it into one. In fact it was a turning point in relationships between different groups of America. The Watergate Scandal was enough that 40 government officials were indicted and a president resigned, and naturally the aftermath of it throttled peoples’ faith in the government. The triangular relationship between public officials, the media and the public was altered forever after it.
coolio.
Which is now reversing back to what it was before?
Skankin Garbage is Deep Throat.
When did I say or even imply that?
Your mom deep throats.
That’s not true… ;_;
I’m still having trouble understanding the impact this had. I didn’t know about the personal army, which is pretty creepy, but are you telling me that before the Watergate scandal your people had blind faith in the government and the relations between the media and politics?
No, before the Media, Government, and the Public were completely separate. The Media and Government only began to become intertwined right before this, with the advent of press conferences and such.
Now the media is:
A) Scared to say anything against the government, especially because the current administration plays favorites. Say Reporter X asks about Iraq, and Reporter Y asks about a baby puppy. Reporter X won’t receive a seat at the next conference, and Reporter Y will.
B) Part of the government. Sup foxnews?
C) Desperate for ratings. Sup ABC/CBS/NBC (to a lesser extent)? So they play toward the American idiot who knows nothing about the government, with stories of soldiers in Iraq raising babies, the President kissing some middle eastern woman, shit like that. They don’t actually report, because real news is too much for everyday Joe-Sixpack to understand.
Uh, it’s not necessarily saying we had blind faith in our government, but you have to admit there is a difference in peoples’ opinion of the government:
-Before there’s a huge scandal involving forty government officials that hold surprisingly high government positions, including the President.
-After said scandal.
It was an open question.
Darn at first you got my hopes up lol.
The ironic thing is that Nixon actually had nothing to do with Watergate itself, he simply covered it up. John Dean is the one who organized the break-in at Watergate. Dean has spent the last 32 years trying to analyze who Deep Throat was, and still thinks that this guy isn’t him. He thinks Felt was simply a mastermind who got information from others and gave it to Woodward & Bernstein.
Of course, then, Dean also had Nixon speechwriter and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan on the short list of people who could have been Deep Throat… >_>