Speaking truth to power: more lessons from the Scott Ritter case

This essay will not be about Scott Ritter, the man, but about related issues that arose in a virtual discussion via the Comments function here or in direct emails to me over my ‘contrarian’ remarks with readers of these pages and viewers of my two youtube.com interviews that went on air yesterday. Please note that I am responding to the serious, respectfully couched questions and/or criticism that comes my way, not to poison-pen tirades which also show up in Comments and are systematically deleted.