Hal Holbrook's Character Name Revealed

More than thirty years on, W. Mark Felt, denying the identification up until now, has stepped forward as Watergate's Deep Throat. Not surprisingly, after a period of no comment, presumably to determine that Felt had initiated the story himself, The Washington Post is all over the story. Bob Woodward is going to publish his side of the story on Thursday. It'll be interesting to see how the right-wing spin machine reacts. Will they leave it alone and let it run its course, or will they go on the attack, bringing out their normal tricks of questioning Felt's patriotism, accusing him of an attempted coup, etc.? If only to distract us from the problems at hand, my money's on attack. Regardless, I'm sure there'll be more to say about all this over the next few days.