In a 2006 Newseum interview, former Washington Post managing editor Ben Bradlee talked about the newspaper's coverage of the Watergate scandal.
Ben Bradlee knew that "Deep Throat" was someone well connected but didn't find out his name until much later. What he did know was how critical this person was to pointing Woodward and Bernstein in the right direction.
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