FBI Squeezed Deep Throat

'Perversions' intended to 'disturb'

(NEWSER) - Lindsay Lohan's depiction on film of the degradations suffered by porn star Linda Lovelace won't likely be fit for viewing in any mainstream movie theater, according to a fetish porn blogger who's had a look at the screenplay. The planned film, Inferno, is like a "Lifetime horror film" that focuses on the psychological and physical torture Lovelace's husband exacted on the Deep Throat star, and involves beatings and gang rape, according to Aerik Von, who's pretty tolerant of such fare working for deadlydommes.com. More»

Supreme Court nominee argued against banning 'Nasty' rap album

(NEWSER) - The search through Elena Kagan's work history has yielded an amusing nugget: She went to bat for notoriously sexual rap group 2 Live Crew. In a 1990 brief for the RIAA when she was an associate at a DC law firm, Kagan argued As Nasty as They Wanna Be "does not physically excite anyone who hears it, much less arouse a shameful and morbid sexual response." So, just for the record, she didn't find tracks like "The Fuck Shop" and, of course, "Me So Horny" arousing, and didn't think anyone else would, either. More»

Co-founder axes images, complaints erupt

(NEWSER) - Wikipedia's founders are battling against contributor objections to ax images they believe are pornographic from Wiki sites. Wikimedia Commons, a media file used by Wikipedia, last week deleted hundreds of images after co-founder Jimmy Wales said many of them appealed "solely to prurient interests." The action followed estranged Wiki co-founder Larry Spanger's complaints to the FBI that Wikimedia was "knowingly distributing child pornography," reports the BBC . But Wales reinstated some images following contributor complaints that the decision was made too quickly and without consultation. More»

(NEWSER) - Comcast, the cable company whose Super Bowl broadcast exposed thousands of Arizona viewers to 30 seconds of pay-per-view porn, has partnered with the FBI to investigate the incident, the Arizona Daily Star reports. The company has denied responsibility for the “malicious act,” which included the display of a man’s nether regions. “Our investigation has proven that our technical systems were working properly,” a spokeswoman said. More»

W. Mark Felt was secret source who helped expose Richard Nixon's abuses of power

(NEWSER) - The FBI agent who helped bring down Richard Nixon has died at his California home at the age of 95, the New York Times reports. W. Mark Felt was "Deep Throat"—the anonymous source who supplied crucial leads to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward about White House abuses of power, setting in motion the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon's resignation. More»