Your right about that.
If you read the whole interview...you can't help but feel he is spilling a " party line " in fact earlier in the interview he has absolutely NO reservations about the information he just printed. He is pounding his chest because he felt everyone needed to know. Did he fell it or did someone decide he needed to " put it out there " with the intent to damage the president.
Hindsite is amazingly 20/20
These people have no regrets other than the idea of being held accountable.
As to Risen's observations that . . .if we decide that we don't want independent, aggressive investigative reporting, then we'll become more like other countries and less like the United States.
I would respond that this is precisely what all this is about. . .these Libs wanting to change the United States into the marxist model that abounds in countries around the world.
And they are willing to sell compromise the security and integrity of our country and our Miilitary to accomplish their goals.