"DON'T LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN!"

You have to love the editorial staff at the New York Times. Well, not really, I don’t, but whatever. The Times has their dress up over their head because the investigation, the investigation they wanted so much, into Valerie Plame’s outing as a CIA desk jockey has ended up with subpoena’s to reporters asking for their sources.

Seriously, take a step back and think about this. The Times demands that the government find out who gave the name of Valerie Plame to Robert Novak. Ask yourself, what’s the easiest, quickest and most reliable way to do this? ASK NOVAK!!! No, you can’t ask a reporter who his source was; that’s immoral. You need to shuffle around the Pentagon (the world's largest office building) and the White House, asking everyone you see if they spilled the beans. That’s what the Times wants:

“The focus of the leak inquiry has lately shifted from the Bush White House, where it properly belongs, to an attempt to compel journalists to testify and reveal their sources. In an ominous development for freedom of the press and government accountability that hits particularly close to home, a federal judge in Washington has ordered a reporter for The New York Times, Judith Miller, to testify before a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the covert operative's identity and to describe any conversations she had with "a specified executive branch official." (emphasis mine)

We also get this:

“This chilling rejection of both First Amendment principles and evolving common law notions of a privilege protecting a reporter's confidential sources cries out for rejection on appeal, as does the undue secrecy surrounding the special prosecutor's filings in the case.”

The First Amendment doesn’t give a reporter special privileges when it comes to a court subpoena, as much as the Times whishes it would. Reports are people, too and need to follow all of the rules. What the Times wants is to stonewall investigations and at the same time complain about how long it’s taking.

Sounds a bit familiar, doesn’t it? Hillary?