A necessary evil
Paul Chesser, whom readers with long memories might recall as an occasional guest contributor to our Religion pages in the mid-1990s, reaches a nationwide audience today with a guest column in The Washington Times defending the careful, judicious use of anonymous sources to expose government wrongdoing.
I'm not a huge fan of anonymous sources in stories. I've tried to avoid them and have required my reporters to try to do the same. But sometimes, there just is no substitute.
