The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two official at the FBI, was “Deep Throat,” the secretive source who provided information that helped unravel the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s and contributed to the resignation of president Richard M. Nixon, according to this story posted online this afternoon.

In-ter-est-ing!!!

Since Vanity Fair, which broke the story, is not free online, some publications, incliuding he New York Times, posted the full story as a pdf file.

More stories from the Washington Post in a special section here. The Post even has a blog about it.

W. Mark Felt, who retired from the FBI after rising to its second most senior position, has identified himself as the “Deep Throat” source quoted by The Washington Post to break the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon’s resignation, Vanity Fair magazine reported Tuesday in its July issue.

Who will be the deep throat source who rats on President George W. Bush in his second term scandal?

Living alone in a small trailer, 84-year-old Virginia Copeland said she hears the voice of her deceased husband, Bryan Copeland, through the words he wrote 60 years ago while stationed at bases in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Islands, in this memorial day portrait in the Birmingham Post-Herald. Copeland wrote of being drafted into the Army, something that seemed to make him angry. He did make it home for Thanksgiving in 1845 and settled back into his life as a postal worker at the Locust Fork Post Office.

“This Memorial Day is not a good one for the country that was once the world’s most brilliant beacon of freedom and justice,” writes Bob Herbert on today’s New York Times op/ed page.

Sorry to spoil the ending, but in case you don’t get around to reading the whole column, here’s the point:

“In much of the world, the image of the U.S. under Mr. Bush has morphed from an idealized champion of liberty to a heavily armed thug in camouflage fatigues. America is increasingly being seen as a dangerously arrogant military power that is due for a comeuppance. It will take a lot more than Karen Hughes to turn that around.”

Amen.