COLUMN EXPOSED FAULTS IN DRUG ENFORCEMENT

Michelle Malkin, as The Seattle Times' ONLY investigative reporter, deserves
full credit if The Times has any credibility left in the area of police
reporting.

How uncanny that she alone, in a single weekly column on the editorial page,
has illuminated City Attorney Mark Sidran's covert tracks so brightly that
no official with any integrity can possibly maintain the blind spot
shielding the inequities of Seattle's drug-enforcement policy ("Seattle's
war on drugs has priorities mixed up," Dec. 22).

While I respect Malkin's craft as an editorial writer, her work belongs on
the front page - where it would be in a paper interested in uncovering,
rather than covering, the news.

Lauren Bain, Vashon

Checked-by: Rolf Ernst