When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

As a journalist, I think the only question that you ask yourself - once you've determined that the material is authentic - is what is in the public interest to know. And then you go about and report it.

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.

A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

The promise of the Internet has always been that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly potent instrument of liberation and democratization. It would let you explore things and meet people who you wouldn't otherwise get to know, in completely free and unconstrained ways.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.