To the editor,

I’m so very proud of the present state of American journalism (sarcasm). A former presidential press secretary, Scott McClellan, reveals that “five of the highest ranking officials in the Bush Administration : Rove, Libby, Cheney, (Andrew) Card, and the president himself” have been involved in a conspiracy to cover up the outing of a CIA agent, and today’s Fourth Estate does and says – nothing.

Since a jellyfish could teach the Democrats about having a spine, the idealist in me was hoping for, oh I don’t know, maybe a little investigative journalism about a credible suggestion the highest officials in the administration (including President Bush) are involved in a felony? I can be such a dreamer sometimes.

Were the Founding Fathers wrong about a democracy needing a well-informed electorate? Perhaps a more appropriate question would be: How much of a democracy do we have left?

Daniel Patrick Schamle,

Lawrence