ob telecom: The Watergate burglers were caught planting bugs and wiretaps...
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From an article by John "cancer on the presidency" Dean in Sunday's LA Times:
"We'll all know one day very soon, however. Bob Woodward, a reporter on the team that covered the Watergate story, has advised his executive editor at the Washington Post that Throat is ill. And Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Post and one of the few people to whom Woodward confided his source's identity, has publicly acknowledged that he has written Throat's obituary.
"I suspect that Throat's identity may prove a cautionary tale for all news gatherers. Stay tuned.
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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Times change, but the more they change, the more things stay the same. In Nixon's presidency, FOIA had not yet become law -- I don't think -- and the importance of people like 'Throat' could not be underestimated, and surely, he brought down Nixon, even though others fell as well, and wound up going to jail in Tricky Dick's place.A full year and a half after ACLU and others filed suit under FOIA (in 2003) asking for information on Bush's role in the torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi guys, the court ruled they could have the paperwork they were seeking, although with so many redactions I think there must have been a big sale on black tip marker pens. Finally, on December 20, 2004 ACLU got the paperwork they had been demanding; they released it a day or two later to the net and elsewhere. Page after page, of the hundreds of pages received had redactions; there are literally *thousands* of instances of violations of the Geneva Conven- tion regarding treatment and mistreatment of prisoners; it was all much more widespread than anyone suspected; it all came down from very high sources in the Pentagon, and ultimatly from Bush. Check out the