The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

Women are damn resilient.

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.

We human beings are a lot more resilient than we often realize. Resilient and perseverant.