Wait - it gets better - did I mention DEEP THROAT is a 9-11 commissioner?

[Elidor]

Fred F. Fielding:

Fred F. Fielding
Commissioner
Fred Fielding is senior partner and head of Wiley, Rein, & Fielding's Government Affairs, Business & Finance, Litigation and Crisis Management/White Collar Crime Practices. From 1981-1986, he served as Counsel to the President of the United States, as deputy counsel from 1972-1974 and as Associate Counsel from 1970-1972. He also served as clearance counsel during the Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition. In addition to his public service as White House counsel, Fielding has served as the U.S.-designated arbitrator at the Tribunal on the U.S.-U.K. Air Treaty Dispute (1989-1994), as a member of the president's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform (1989) and as a member of the secretary of transportation's Task Force on Aviation Disasters, (1997-1998), as well as numerous other commissions. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania Bars, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; the District of Columbia Court of Appeals; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C., Federal, First, Third, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits; the U.S. Court of Military Appeals; and the U.S. Supreme Court. He holds an A.B., with honors, from Gettysburg College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Virginia Law Review.

http://www.9-11commission.gov/about/bio_fielding.htm
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Fred Fisher Fielding, deputy to former White House counsel John Dean during the Nixon administration (oh yeah - THAT Fred Fielding!), emerged practically unscathed from the Watergate scandal. H.R. Haldeman, President Richard Nixon's White House chief of staff, speculated in his book The Ends of Power that Fielding was Deep Throat. Fielding denied he was Throat.
His relationship with the White House did not fully end with his 1986 resignation as counsel. He was a member of the President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Reform in 1989 and served as a member of the Secretary of Transportation’s Task Force on Aviation Disasters from 1997 to 1998. Fielding was also clearance counsel for the Bush-Cheney presidential transition team from 2000 to 2001 and appointed to a National Commission on Terrorist Attacks in 2002.

After a four-year investigation, students at the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have determined the identity of Deep Throat, the most elusive, anonymous news source in history: Fred Fielding, deputy counsel to former President Richard Nixon.

http://deepthroatuncovered.com/bio/

[Syrinx]

1. Nah, I think Deep Throat was Pat Buchanan

[still_one]

2. You are both wrong

everyone knows that Deep Throat was Linda Lovelace

[Jim Sagle]

3. Ba dump bump.

[ConsAreLiars]

4. The guy who is the neocon's 911 contact?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40578-2004Mar31.html

President Bush's top lawyer placed a telephone call to at least one of the Republican members of the Sept. 11 commission when the panel was gathered in Washington on March 24 to hear the testimony of former White House counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke, according to people with direct knowledge of the call.

White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales called commissioner Fred F. Fielding, one of five GOP members of the body, and, according to one observer, also called Republican commission member James R. Thompson. Rep. Henry A. Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, wrote to Gonzales yesterday asking him to confirm and describe the conversations.

Thanks to: http://www.mikemalloy.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=9393&sid=ba467641ee698b1ea257fa793f6ea9b6

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Now wait a minute...

wasn't this the same journalism school (different class and teacher) that caused the ruckus finding out that half of Illinois' death row prisoners were probably not guilty?

The future of journalism might not be all that bad after all.

[lostnfound]

6. This is a movieset right?? a black, black, black tragicomedy..

I want to wake up from it.

[peekaloo]

7. we're living the rehabilitation scene from 'A Clockwork Orange'

[salin]

8. Except, of course, wasn't it Fielding

that we know was called by the White House legal counsel to consult before the Clarke testimony? You know, inappropriate ex parte communication. And indeed, he was among those suggesting that Clarke was trying to sell books and that Clarke's testimony was not consistent with his previous testimony (now we have to wonder... staged points made via the white house?)

Doesn't sound consistent with Deep Throat, given that the activities of this White House - including stalling and frustrating THIS commission - are so much more serious in implication that were the activities related to Watergate.

[Elidor]

9. I didn't mean to suggest that Fielding is on the side of the angels

One thing that was clear in All the President's Men was that Deep Throat was a deeply cynical man. And I never got the impression that Throat was acting out of a sense of integrity. I think he was acting in his own self-interest. And that's fully consistent with who Fielding is today. And just think how much more cynical and self-serving he's had time to become in the last 30 years.

Bill Gaines and his students make a very compelling case on their site, btw.