I have to applaud the New York Times for getting its spine back, “President Bush on Monday pushed back angrily at the New York Times for publishing details of a terrorist finance surveillance program, which the president branded as ‘disgraceful.’” Who is disgraced here? It isn’t the Times’ responsibility to withhold news, it is the Administration’s job to prevent leaks. Instead of berating the Times, Mr. President, charge its sources with treason. Unless the penalty of leaking national secrets is death, what is the incentive not to leak? Via Chron.
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Well said. Of course, the hypocrisy is that Bush Administration officials leak all the time, including the identity of undercover CIA agent Valerie Wilson. They don’t complain when newspapers publish their leaks. They only complain when papers publish leaked information that Bush and his underlings don’t want us to know, and it’s usually information of wrongdoing by those same officials.
Yeah. One might think that they’re petting the Times with one hand and then hitting them with the other. Who is going to face the firing squad? Nobody.