The biggest off-season sports story in Washington -- and maybe in Major League Baseball -- is who the league will sell the Washington Nationals too. As the national capital's hometown paper, the Washington Post today ran the "first in an occasional series" on the various investor groups bidding on the team -- focusing on the group led by Fred Malek.

In analyzing the group's chances, the Post talked about how the group was carefully formed to include power players from both sides of the aisle (Frank Raines and Vernon Jordan to balance out Malek). The Post dug deeper, reporting that some believe that the Malek group orchestrated some "media and political attacks against fellow bidders." Yet nowhere in the analysis does the Post mention that Fred Malek was Nixon's chosen one - his investigator into the feared "Jewish cabal" at the Labor Department in 1971.

Malek went along with Nixon's paranoid, anti-Semitic orders; when word of it became public in 1988, Malek resigned as deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee. You can argue about whether Malek should still pay for these sins or not, but undoubtedly Malek's anti-Semitic past is an issue in the sale of the team -- or at least a relevant point in his biography to bring up when discussing the pros and cons of selling the Nationals to him. So why was the Post silent? Was there connection to Google or even to Slate -- which they now own and whose Tim Noah has written extensively about Malek's less than glorious past -- down? Or is the Post just a bit too chummy with the power establishment in Washington to break this gentlemen's agreement?