Mark 'Deep Throat' Felt, Gone!

One of the first stories I received national links off, was my Deep Throat speculation back in February 2005. At the time, John Dean wrote an Op-Ed hinting Deep Thrat was dying. Woodward and Bernstein had always said they wouldn not reveal the source until A) they had permission, or B) the informant passed. There was even talk of Ben Stein being the stooly. Speculation was rampant, I believed at the time it is L. Patrick Gray, the FBI Director. We later found out, it was Gray's right hand man, Mark Felt.

Yesterday, Mark Felt passed:

(CNN) -- W. Mark Felt, who leaked information to reporters under the moniker, "Deep Throat," about the Watergate break-in, died Thursday at the age of 95, sources told CNN.

Rob Jones, Felt's grandson, said his grandfather died at his home in Santa Rosa, California. According to published reports, Felt died of congestive heart failure.

Felt admitted in a 2005 Vanity Fair article he was the Washington Post's source for many of its 400 stories on the Watergate affair during the early 1970s. The Watergate break-in eventually led to the 1974 resignation of President Richard Nixon.

"I'm proud of everything that Deep Throat did," Felt, 92, told CNN's "Larry King Live" in 2006, his first public interview on the subject.

We always love a mystery, but we love more to have the mystery solved. Mark Felt will live on in political history. May he rest in peace!

Flash