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

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

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

Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

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

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

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