Revealing state secrets
Or providing insight
Into dirty places
They'd scour it all
Digging for truth
Secret nuclear plants
The fault for a massacre
A context for foreign wars
A CIA supplying drugs
The NSA spying on us
The failing of the FBI
Or dangerous nuclear leaks
A president's indiscretions
White House unethical acts
Secret information gathering
Crooked cops in NYC
Ending an unjust war
Their reporting announced
That now was the final hour
But instead of being praised
All were punished, repeatedly
Reporting unethical choices
By the government
Or individuals with power
Webb, Snowden, Rowley
Silkwood, Tripp, Felt
Haugen, Serpico, Ellsberg
