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The media's vital role as "watchdogs" is rarely more important than in matters of national security. And rarely is national security more threatened and in need of protection by loud barking than in cases involving treason by high-level officials and penetration of the government by agents of hostile foreign powers. However, for much of the past century, while agents of totalitarian foreign powers have relentlessly attacked America, our press has acted like "the dog that didn't bark" in the Sherlock Holmes mystery Silver Blaze.
In that classic whodunit, a famous thoroughbred champion was stolen from the stable in the middle of the night and its trainer murdered. ...