Bravo to Washington Post and "Woodstein"

The best-kept secret in journalism has been “outed” this week as the source known as "Deep Throat" revealed himself. As for Woodward and Bernstein, BRAVO, BRAVITSE and a good hardy HOORAH for them. For three decades they kept their collective word and didn't give up their source. This goes for the Post editor, Ben Bradlee, as well.

Of course it's too bad the "the Post" hasn't had a decent peice of Investigative jounalism since.

Now, I saw on the news this week after Mr. Felt "outed" himself that there was some discourse on weather this man had done the right thing or not etc., etc.. Or, in news terms weather he was a "Good American or Not" and all this other rubbish.

Let's think about this.

Here is a man, a senior official in the FBI. Now, let us remember that it is the Federal Bureau of INVESTIGATIONS. The purpose of the FBI is to Investigate illegal activities and general misconduct of ALL groups, bodies and organizations operating in the United States. This is what this organization does.
So, here is a senior official in the FBI who has discovered illegal activities at the highest levels of government and does not feel comfortable releasing said findings through normal channels. What does it say about an organization who can’t report the results of their work through the channels provided too them?

Now G. Gordon Liddy, who spent time in jail as a result of the Watergate scandal, is almost expected to carry a grudge. Pat Buchanan, well, we don’t expect much from him. But there were some others who questioned this mans patriotism and loyalty to the country and related ideals so to them, I wonder what they are thinking. Here is a man who was doing his job and didn’t feel comfortable releasing the findings of his work through normal channels and found an alternative channel to make his findings known.
The way I look at it, this is EXACTLY the way the 1st Amendment is supposed to operated and exactly the way the Founding Fathers had envisioned the system of checks and balances to function. Free Speech and a Free Press being another form of Check and Balance.

How are this man’s actions any less than Patriotic? No man, body, or organization is supposed to be above the law. And Mr. Felt proved it. The biggest Bravo to him.


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