Deep Throat’s Secret Motives
And why The Washington Post was the perfect, and willing, tool for him.
This was not a lone whistle-blower being protected by a courageous news organization; rather, it was a news organization being used by the FBI against the president, and a news organization that knew perfectly well that it was being used against the president.
It’s one thing not to disclose your source. It’s another not to disclose that your source is the de facto head of the FBI who is spying on the president, however guilty, in order to destroy him, and that his motivation is far from pure. When such a source is protected, so are his real motives, and that makes it impossible for the public to know what is really going on. This is the opposite of what journalists are supposed to do.
(Via Richard Fernandez.)
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