Waldman follows up his front-page perchlorate piece just three weeks later, reporting, again on page one, that Goodrich Corporation, admitting no wrongdoing, has agreed to help clean Southern California water supplies and to “help authorities identify possible polluters.” Along with paying $4 million for treatment facilities in the “Inland Empire” east of Los Angeles, “that includes turning over access to its historical documents and scientific research expected by regulators to implicate other military contractors and the U.S. Department of Defense.” Waldman quotes a local water district manager as saying he had been told by the Defense Department that “the cost of freedom is really high sometimes. Asks the district manager, “is that what I’m supposed to tell the people of my district who don’t have enough water?” An L.A. attorney heading the area’s quasi-official perchlorate task force “likens the agreement with Goodrich, and the prospect of obtaining more evidence from Goodrich for use against the Pentagon and other big-pocket parties, to the process of ‘rolling’ witnesses in a criminal investigation,” Waldman writes. (See: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1042155505208345784-search,00.html?collection=wsjie%2F30day&vql_string=perchlorate%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29)