No matter how the whistleblower complaint arose, its contents still matter

Do you remember when emails were published making Hillary Clinton’s campaign look bad and the Democratic National Committee look biased against Bernie Sanders, and the Democratic establishment reacted by insisting that the only story here was the hacking that exposed the email?

The jawboning forced the media to earnestly defend reporting on their contents. In short, the logic went as such: Their hack and release was unquestionably illegal and wrong, but the information itself, once it was out there, deserved to be reported on as truth.