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Glenn Greenwald has a great post asking why the righties are not outraged about the New York Daily News story about the plot to blow up tunnels in New York City. Until I read Greenwald I didn't realize that the FBI not only said it was an ongoing operation, but that security was compromised by the story.
Greenwald writes:
The only discernible difference between the leaks of the NYT and this leak is that the NYT leaks (as well as those of USA Today and The Washington Post) resulted in political embarrassment for the President. Those leaks resulted in reports that the President was breaking the law when eavesdropping on American citizens, or creating secret, lawless gulags in Eastern Europe, or compiling massive data bases of all domestic calls placed and received by Americans with no oversight or Congressional authorization. None of those leaked stories depicted the President as a Hero or glorified the administration. They were thus attacked as treasonous by the President's followers.
But this leak to the Daily News glorifies the administration and depicts them as caped crusaders protecting us from evil terrorism. And thus, the President's followers love this leak and their rage towards journalists who publish classified information -- along with their demands that they be imprisoned, or worse -- sure do seem to have evaporated into thin air.
So it is easy- any leaks that hurt Bush are bad. Anything that makes him look like the all protecting Supreme Leader that he is great. Scary times.
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