What timing for the revealing of Deep Throat! Just as Newsweek was taking tons of heat for publishing a false Koran flushing story, Deep Throat is revealed removing all attention from Newsweek. It just so happens that Newsweek is also owned by the Washington Post.
It certainly seems odd that now, after the onset of dementia, Mark Felt decided to reveal himself, yet he was still adamant in his denials in 1999. Vanity Fair certainly didn't uncover the story by investigative journalism. According to the article, Woodward dropped by Felt's unexpectedly in 1999. Then, they continued to communicate. In 2001, Felt had a stroke. Perhaps the family was planning on coming out about the subject eventually, but Woodward called and asked to put out the story now, in order to take heat off of Newsweek. If Mark doesn't do any TV interviews himself, I'll be suspicious that this "coming clean" isn't entirely of his own making.
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