Commentary

In Praise of James O’Keefe

By W. Thomas Humber
Thursday, February 04 2010

Some four decades ago, this writer and several of his journalist colleagues working for a now-forgotten magazine prepared to go to jail for refusing to reveal confidential sources regarding a criminal act about which we had published more than the authorities knew. With a former Assistant U.S. Attorney as one of the magazine’s co-editors, we knew the risk we were taking. The law provided neither shield nor gracious thanks for the information we had revealed. We thus waited to be hauled away to the hoosegow with only a brief, intermediate stop before a Grand Jury. It…

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