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Hoyt lends column to the Locy cause

By Mark Obbie

Clark Hoyt takes his Times Public Editor column on a detour today, veering from critiques of the Times' work to write a sympathetic piece on Toni Locy and her contempt case. I'm glad for the detour, and for his slant on Locy (see my earlier pro-Locy post). The column includes details that make Locy's plight all the more sympathic. Locy's opponents have painted her as deceptive for saying she doesn't recall which of her Justice Department sources gave her information about the investigation of Steven Hatfill. Hoyt, who interviewed Locy, reports that after she took a skeptical line on the investigation, Hatfill praised her. Later she tossed her notes. Makes sense to me. Why would she think, under those circumstances, that she and Hatfill would one day be adversaries? Now, her failure to recall her source is grounds for a fishing expedition into all of her DOJ sources.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on April 20, 2008 (boomark / email).