[kcvl]

Journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke the stories on Watergate (late 70's) in the Washington Post, having gained access to what the CIA was trying to keep from congress about its program of using journalists at home and abroad, in deliberate propaganda campaigns. It was later revealed that Woodward was a Naval intelligence briefer to the White House and knew many insiders including General Alexander Haig. A high-level source told Bernstein, "One journalist is worth twenty agents." CFR/Trilateralist Katharine Graham, in a 1988 speech given to senior CIA employees at Agency headquarters said, "We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."

[onyx]

That quote from Kathryn Graham is VERY telling. "when the press can decided to print what it knows."

Daniel Ellsworth also comes to mind. The WP was too high and mighty. Covered for JFK... Camelot you know.

[petitfour]

Naval intelligence indeed. Wasn't Johnathan Pollard the same?