We'll know this Sunday, after the talking heads' meet-up.

While this is good news, it reminds me just how creepy the whole process has become by which Beltway Insiders determine what is important for all of us, and what is not. Evidently they've given up the possibility that their awesome powers might shut this investigation down before trouble starts, but the fact that they all worked so hard at it for so long tells me they still know where their bread is buttered.

The bright spot in this is the growing influence of bloggers and voices outside the conventional mainstream, who refused to let them put this story to sleep, and made a separate story of the MSM's attempts to do just that. Hiatt evidently hopes nobody will notice what actually happened on the road to the Post's turnaround. Thanks for helping us all remember.

Often in the halls of government agencies it is asked in one way or another: "it may be legal, but does it pass the Washington Post test?" Meaning that if our action was reported in WaPo, would we be embarrassed or worse? It's sad that under Mr. Hiatt, the Washington Post can now more often than not be counted upon to help agencies get over on public opinion rather than held up to scrutiny. One would have thought the Department of Justice, as a group of lawyers, would have been sensitive to the legal ethics notion of "avoiding even the appearance of impropriety." Fred might have noted that too - that even if the evidence at the end of the day is mixed as far as whether political motives were plainly behind the firings,the Administration should not have done this because it so plainly raises the appearance of impropriety and undermines faith in the fair and impartial nature of our legal system. Justice is blind for a reason.

In the studio w/ Seder or via telephone?

"Sorry, my bad.

I was entirely wrong, misleading, and slavishly devoted to maintaining my connections to the current power elite. But now that public opinion seems to have dictated that I need to actually report the truth, I will pretend that that is what I was doing all along."

/I'll take things Fred Hiatt will never say for $1000, Alex.

I wonder if there is not an element of jumping ship. The corporate media are now money-making machines before being

information outlets and as such will not stay on board if they do not profit by it. They are like any corporation now...just follow the money.

The Washington Post has now so sullied its reputation and fallen so low it would have to do sustained "honest" work to regain even a semblance of credibility.

...And the reason is that the spirit of anger is, as it were, the cutting or tempering edge of courage. Now beast use this undiluted in their contest, whereas humans have it mixed with calculations, as wine with water, so that it is displaced in the presence of danger and fails you when you need it most. Some of you even declare that anger should not enter at all into fighting, but be dismissed in order to make use of sober calculation; their contention is correct so far as self-preservation go, but is disgracefully false as regards valorous defense. For surely it is absurd for you to find fault with Nature because she did not equip your bodies with natural stings, or place fighting tusk among your teeth, or give you nails like curved claws, while you yourself remove or curb the emotional instrument Nature has give.--Plutarch. on beast being virtuous ( I add. No guns, bombs, anthrax etc. ).

"Anger will turn sweeter than honeycomb." Hold anger gently. Athena placed that advice on the lips to say to another mortal.

This anger is a good anger. Yes. The WaPo some days gives me a 'lighbulb' idea (switch-on-common-sense) that journalist will begin to do what is right and care for the nation and 'do good work.' Light.

We have a right to remain gentle angry people. I feel okay to know the truth can't be hidden. It's daytime now so I am going outside to confront the toils and dangers of those scary Red Breast Robbins. They hop and eat all they can of those garden worms in the potato patch. Don't lose your temper. Don't let anyone emasculate that fighting spirit, either. Thanks.

I think that the firing of Carol Lam is the biggest issue. What was she investigating? What is the status of the investigations under her watch? Was this firing to impede an ongoing investigation? This should be thoroughly looked into. An assessment of all the firings should be looked at along with those prosecutors who did file unsubstantiated charges.

What about the Attorney General Ashcrofts rule change that allows 28 year olds to be prosecutors? Who is working to correct that? What about the change in the constitution requiring congressional review of appointments? Those that were appointed without the required congressional review should be dismissed and put through the process. These people are damaging the justice system possibly beyond repair.

It seems to me that when someone testifying before Congress says that they can't remember 122 times they are "refusing to testify" or so stupid they shouldn't have been hired in the first place. Also if someone claims the 5th then it implies that they have done something illegal.

Hoo. Fucking. Ray.

Well, it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Funny that they focus on Iglasias and not Lam.

Maybe Hiatt was reviewing some of the Post's glory days in the Watergate coverage and noticed that Saturday Night Massacre thing and thought "Oh yeah, firing prosecutors is a questionable act that should be justified in acceptable fashion"

When I read Victoria Teonsing op-ed pieces, I know she is not interested in telling the truth of the matter.

When I read townhall.com and hit jobs on Patrick Fitzgerald, I know the authors are not interested in telling the truth of the matter.

When I read the editorials in WaPo I don't know whether the author is ignorant or uninterested in telling the truth of the matter but I do know they can't be trusted.

I'm left to wonder if their integrity was for sale or if their so extremely partisan they would trade their journalistic integrity for their loyalty to their Republican party, or perhaps, the writers are just plain incompetent. Either way, why buy that crap.