Treason Watch

Buried in the A-Section today, the Washington Post has an interesting story on the Bush administration's slow-moving attempt to bring to justice the leakers in the government and the media who are attempting to undermine the Nation's vigorous anti-terrorist policies in the name of "civil liberties."

The Bush administration said that journalists can be prosecuted under current espionage laws for receiving and publishing classified information but that such a step "would raise legitimate and serious issues and would not be undertaken lightly," according to a court filing made public this week.

"There plainly is no exemption in the statutes for the press, let alone lobbyists like the defendants," Justice Department lawyers wrote in response to a motion filed last month seeking to dismiss charges against Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

Of course, by directing fire to pro-Israel lobbyists and away from the NSA and NYTimes leak machine, the Post is acting like a collective useful idiot, reporting only in code with regard to the real story, which is not this one.