Old Ward ain't got a leg to stand on. If he wanted to investigate child porn, he should have enlisted the authorities in order to cover his stupid ass.
As it is, he'd better pray for a reduced prison sentence.
Ward's claim that he was trying to reveal hypocrisy in his Instant Message correspondent doesn't wash either. Even if she supported the likes of Dubya, wouldn't simply exposing her as a dominatrix show her two-facedness? Who needs child porn for that? It makes no sense.
So--book in the works or no book--Ward hasn't got a journalism leg to stand on. As for the two other media people, Matthews and Eichenwald, we may never know exactly what they were up to, either. They also behaved recklessly when they took up the child porn story.
In this earlier piece from a couple of weeks ago, Ward tried to explain himself:
I got an answer, from Ward himself. "I did have notes," he wrote in an e-mail. "Notes on what I was doing and conversations I had, etc. I told people I was going to write a book, and one of those people also saw the index cards that I had notes on." He also had a meeting at Perry's on Union Street with a publisher's rep, he says, and that meeting was scheduled by his producer at KGO. Ward says he has informed KGO about his notes but hasn't had access to them "because of the fear of being accused of adding to them or doctoring them in some way."
Ward adds: "I never downloaded anything to my computer, and nothing was found there."
It doesn't matter, you dumb shit. You shouldn't have even tried to mess with that crap.
Ward's trial is set for June 10.
