[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'226094\' date=\'Sep 15 2009, 02:59 PM\'][quote name=\'pentellit\' post=\'226093\' date=\'Sep 15 2009, 03:43 PM\']without ever being outed?"[/quote]
If I may, I think I see where we're having a problem. I believe that the point pentellit is making is that Deep Throat's identity was successfully protected by the people who promised to protect it for years and years and years and years, and that ultimately, the only reason his identity became known is because he (along with his family) divulged it himself. In other words, when she said "without ever being outed" she specifically and pointedly meant "without ever being outed
by somebody else". Several people (myself included, at first) saw the original post to mean that his identity remained secret his entire life, which of course was not the case.
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