There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's "too soft" or "too hard," about 999 would say "too hard."

Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.