Let me first say that I respect professor Edsall tremendously. He is a treasure to journalism. Unfortunately, he has been incredibly sloppy and bordering on defamation in his latest entry on the unfortunate death of GOP programmer Michael Connell.

Edsall rightly takes to task the many people that have prematurely determined that Connell's death was anything but an accident. I agree with him on that point. I have seen an incredible number of conclusions drawn and people...