[lbo-talk] Greg Palast on Hunter Thompson=Deep Throat??

[John Lacny]

I thought I'd heard somewhere that assuming Deep Throat actually existed and
that he had all the characteristics ascribed to him by Woodward and
Bernstein (the most important of these, of course, being that he was a
single individual and not a composite), the person who would have had access
to the information they talk about and who could have been physically
present at all the times they describe having met with Deep Throat was L.
Patrick Gray III, Hoover's immediate successor as head of the FBI.

Is Gray still alive, though? Isn't it a promise by Woodward and Bernstein
that they will reveal DT's identity when he dies?

Hunter S. Thompson? Absolutely no way. Buchanan is more plausible than
Thompson, but still unlikely in my view. I think a lot of the suspicion it
may be Buchanan hinges on the idea of Buchanan as an honest fanatic,
somebody who at bottom has some moral scruples. That's a delusion, I
think -- Pat Buchanan is a scheming, vindictive, dishonest, wicked lunatic
just like Nixon himself was.

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