THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR JOURNALISTS ACTING AS A TV-AND-PRINT LYNCH MOB. WE HAVE SEEN WHERE SUCH WRONGHEADED ATTITUDES LEAD, SUCH AS TO THE GROUPTHINK THAT IRAQ'S SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS HIDING WMDS; OR IN AN EARLIER TIME — TO THE MCCARTHYISM THAT DESTROYED THE LIVES OF AMERICANS SMEARED AS UNPATRIOTIC BECAUSE OF DISSIDENT POLITICAL VIEWS. —Robert Parry