Reply #11: Oh sure,blame the reporters. Grab your pitch forks and tar & feathers. THAT will sure

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make the "whistle blowers" want to stand up and be seen.
The cases sited about were 30 or more years ago. In the case of Watergate, it is THE classic opposite of the the press getting it wrong or covering up: Ben Bradley and the Post reporters got it right, and the rest is history. Real history, not rewrite.
A free democratic society needs more press doing better reporting; not spending their time fending off internet here-say and innuendo by oh so brave keyboard warriors
It smacks of the Right Wing blaring about Pelosi, as if SHE were the real problem.