88 Quotes by Bill Keller

I wish it had been a clear-cut whistle-blower case. I wish it had been a reporter who came with less public baggage,

It felt somehow unsavory to begin a tenure by attacking our predecessors, ... We allowed the anger inside and outside the paper to fester. Worse, we fear, we fostered an impression that the Times put a higher premium on protecting its reporters than on coming clean with its readers.

It felt somehow unsavory to begin a tenure by attacking our predecessors,

Judy met this afternoon with the special counsel to hand over additional notes and answer questions. She is to return to the grand jury Wednesday to supplement her earlier testimony.

Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign.

Judy believed Libby was afraid of her testimony,

When we learn something anonymously, we push very hard to bolster our reporting with on-the-record information and documents. But often the first alert of something going wrong comes from a nervous insider who wants to expose something amiss but can't afford to risk his or her job.

What our reporting has done is set off an intense national debate about the proper balance between security and liberty.

We do our best to make sure that doesn't happen, but occasionally it does. But notebooks are not by any means a vehicle for people to slip their personal opinions into the newspaper.