UPDATE: The Heartland Institute has responded. See bottom of this post for an excerpt. Somebody sent the Heartland Institute a wicked Valentine. It was probably meant for Joseph Bast, Heartland's President and CEO. Based on my reading of the leaked documents, I'm thinking that a recently fired employee or someone still there is not feeling a lot of love for Bast and the way he runs his organization. The whistleblower/insider sent an email around to a bunch of folks yesterday, which got forwarded to me. While the documents have been disseminated on the internet, nobody reporting on this appears to have mentioned the accompanying email: