I admit I thought the worst of her. I now realize, due to this story

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/27/gates.arr...

(which is the subject of its own thread)that Ms. Whalen herself was the victim of Sgt. Crowley's lies, and that I was one of too many people who believed those lied.

Ms. Whalen was not to blame for what Sgt. Crowley did, and I shouldn't have let myself believe that she was. I was wrong.

She should be, as another poster suggested, invited to the Gates-Crowley beer party(if only to pour a beer over Crowley's lying racist head).