Okay, so I stopped liking Judith Miller right around the WMD scare, and I haven’t felt passionately either way about her refusal to give up her source (I’ll leave those screeds to the knowledgeable news section), but this sucks. It’s the first concrete example of a chilling effect—and in the case of the Plain Dealer, it looks like the source could have been a real whistle-blower, not Karl Rove.