Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

Good work is always done in defiance of management.