After promising for weeks that it would publish a stunning e-book by John Dean that would finally out Watergate source Deep Throat, Salon.Com and Dean chickened out.
Dean was going to name White House Attorney Jonathan Rose, but Salon apparently feared a lawsuit from Rose and Dean claims a source told him at the last minute that Rose was definitely not Deep Throat.
So Dean’s book concludes that Deep Throat is Pat Buchanan. Or maybe press secretary Ron Zielger. And if not those two, then maybe White House aide Ray Price. Or possibly White House aide Steven Bull.
A better explanation — Woodward and Bernstein created Deep Throat as a literary device (which would better explain why the information supplied by Deep Throat was often erroneous).