The Search for Deep Throat: John Dean's Picks

He helped topple a President and shake Americans' trust in their government, and yet after three decades the identity of Deep Throat is still one of Washington's great unsolved mysteries. This week in an e-book published by the online magazine Salon, former White House counsel John Dean delivers a list of four men he believes could have been the anonymous source who divulged key facts about the Watergate break-in and cover-up to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Dean, whose incriminating Senate testimony led President Nixon to call him a traitor, has twice before proffered theories on the shadowy...

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