We're all -- or almost all of us (I except Josh) are just spinning our wheels here. One of the most frustrating aspects of this frustrating story is that at least a few and possibly quite more than that know who leaked to whom and just what was said.  Yet from the first, the NYT has stood high on the horse of the freedom of the press and, as Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has just put it "the greater good of our democracy" and "conscience."  We are asked to take it on faith that Judith Miller is protecting a source and thereby democracy itself.  But does that mean that no one else at the NYT (or anywhere else in the print media and broadcast media, for that matter) is not allowed to investigate and get to the bottom of this story?  Instead, it's left to the bloggers and those of us who read them to try to piece the shards of evidence together.

Posted at July 6, 2005 2:30 PM in response to Matt Speaks!