Deep Throat fingers self

Former FBI deputy director W. Mark Felt (now 91 years old and living in Santa Rosa, California) has apparently told Vanity Fair magazine that he was Deep Throat, the secret source who guided Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's Washington Post investigation of Watergate that culminated in Richard Nixon's resignation as American president. Woodward and Bernstein gotta be choked that Felt decided to self-identify to another reporter, rather than letting them pull off the mask and relive their Watergate glories. Felt's confession would have been no revelation to the man who lost the most, Nixon, who had the G-man pegged as the snitch while he was still president. Which brings us to our quote of the day, courtesy of Tricky Dick:

"The informer is not wanted in our society. That's the one thing people do sort of line up against.... They say, 'Well, that son-of-a-bitch informed. I don't want him around.' We wouldn't want him around, would we?"

—President Richard Nixon, in a recorded White House conversation with Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman