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

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