Hoisted from the Archives: What Is Wrong with Senate "Investigations" and with the "Washington Post"

Thinking about the Sanders amendment to the Dodd Senate financial regulations bill makes me think it is time to hoist this from archives. From June 2006:

Republican Senate "Investigations" and the Washington Post: Agents of Satan? Or Baal-Zebub Himself/: Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?

Dear Ms. Marcus:

Thanks for your thoughtful and intelligent email, with its question of why, given that "we all write and say and even blog things that we could have done...