The 'Rent Is Past Due.... For A Major Ass-Kicking

Danny the Rentboy phones in his bi-monthly column by printing reader letters, because, you know, the NYT doesn't have a letters page or anything. One correspondent makes the following point:

You're not doing your job very well by allowing the reporter Judith Miller to avoid you and the executive editor, Bill Keller, to stonewall you. Mr. Keller can't respond to you because "Judy faces a serious danger of being sent to jail for protecting a confidential source."

He and Ms. Miller can't discuss new assertions about Ahmad Chalabi with the public editor, but it's O.K. for her to go on television?

DAVID DAVICH
Winter Park, Fla., Feb. 6, 2005

Actually, Dave, Jokrent is doing his job exactly as intended.