DEEP THROAT

I have nothing to say that others cannot say better. For people of my generation, this dispute will always be a little inaccessible. We came of age after the great disillusionment of the late 1960s and 1970s. Rather than disillusioned, my generation was and is, I think, merely unillusioned. But I have to say that if you want a defense of anonymous sources, you couldn’t find a better one than Felt. And, yes, he had mixed motives. So what? Most sources do. And they can still tell the truth. I hope the press isn’t spooked by the Isikoff kerfuffle. With an administration as secretive as this one, and with a war granting it unparalleled powers, we need more reporting, not less.