The Obama administration clearly sets a higher priority on
what’s good for national security than on what’s good for journos.
Not so, Glenn Greenwald, who complains with outrage that the
administration is “obsessed.”
In the general run of cases, there has been prosecution of
leaks but not even a hint of prosecution of a journo, his editors, or his
employer.
In the present case, to get a warrant to track and examine a
reporter’s emails the administration had to tell the judge he, the reporter,
was possibly guilty of serious crimes.
And that they would or could even think such a thought has
Greenwald and the other friends and lackeys of Big Media in a tailspin,
including, this morning, the Republicans!
Notice, too, that the Post is quoted as questioning whether
what Rosen did could possibly be illegal, given the First Amendment.
They do not ask whether it could be illegal, given the
Espionage Act, the relevant legislation that numerous Supreme Courts have left
standing and to which the administration had recourse.
The rest of the piece is just Greenwald flipping out that
journos themselves could be punished for violations of secrecy.
My, my.
How special we are, we gentlemen of the press!
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