I don’t know how guilty he is, especially compared to other who’s-who in Ottawa, but he forgot to practice the simple adage.
If it looks bad, don’t do it.
Yep, very true. I also think that he was naïve to expect other journalists to be as scrupulous about keeping confidences as he was; one of the reasons he knew everything that was going on was that his sources all knew he wouldn’t betray them.