What they said...

To just whore a part of their post, Firedoglake says in two paragraphs what it has taken me about 30 inarticulate posts to try to get across:

Those of us in the general public depend on reporters to dig into the dirt for us, to bring out the filthy little lies and secrets that can rot the government from its core to the outside. We expect that the doing of the job will be more important that the keeping of the job -- and the maintaining of the powerful friendships and whatever other incentives this may bring along with it.

Instead, in this Traitorgate mess, and in the run up to the Iraq War, what we got was a lot of superficial factual reporting, sourced to layered secret sourcing that turns out, now, to have been the same group of 8 or 9 people confirming each others' stories. That's just plain lazy. And dangerous -- just ask all those soldiers who have lost limbs or the families of those who have lost their lives how important it might have been to know the actual truth from all sides of the issue, instead of just reporting the easy bits that were spoon-fed to you from WHIG, that clearly had its own agenda ahead of everything else.

AMEN!