ok . let me repeat this. the valerie plame case is exactly the opposite of "investigative journalism," where instead of us ferreting out your insane abuse of power, you are enlisting us in your insane abuse of power. where instead of revealing the machinations, the greed, the cover-ups, the journalist is being enlisted in the machinations, the greed, the cover-ups. investigative journalism would try to demonstrate that the justifications for war were fabricated; in non-investigative non-journalism - what the hell - we'll fabricate them for you. but if i give up scooter libby, i.e. dick cheney , no one - not even scooter libby, i.e. dich cheney - will talk to me again. fear, instead, that these vicious fucks *will* talk to you again, and again try to use you to destroy their enemies and, like, truth and goodness and shit. i can respect the idea that a promise is binding. i can also see that the promise you made to some vicious tyrant to help them destroy dissidents - and made under false pretenses - could be broken in the name of truth and freedom.