A lot of things can’t be justified with all the information we have now, but at the time, with each actor only having a partial view of the situation, most decisions appear to have been made in good faith.
There are some big exceptions, aside from the criminality – Chaffetz should never have leaked the letter, and some journalists made inexplicable decisions to ignore information given to them by reliable sources.
Scuttlebutt says Inquiring minds won’t have to wait much longer.
