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So it's "treason" to reveal government crimes nowadays! I wonder if the Administration ever considered breaking into the reporters psychiatrist's offices? I'll bet Mr. Johnson would've defended that decision on "national security" grounds, too!

How quickly we forget our history.

Treason. That's what Scott Johnson of Power Line says the New York Times's James Risen and Eric Lichtblau got their Pulitzer Prize for. I wouldn't go that far, though I did raise the issue of whether the government could prosecute them and the Times under the Espionage Act for revealing the National Security Agency surveillance of conversations between suspected terrorists abroad and persons in the United States. Johnson gives a good example of the incoherence of the Times these days, as follows:

(link) [U.S. News & World Report]

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