"Fourth Estate's vainglorious paeans to source confidentiality"

"So vital to our democracy, to our liberties, yea, to our very lives is the principle that a reporter must be able to conceal the identity of a source that nothing can supersede it. No subpoena, no public-safety urgency, no cry for justice. The lips of these titans are sealed."

"Unless you've been living under a rock, you now know that Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, was Miller's source that Plame worked at the CIA. And you know that Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, was a source who confirmed that fact for Cooper."

"But how do you know?"

"the journalists decided to tell you"

"Miller and Cooper both made certain that the public knew every syllable uttered by the sources they've sanctimoniously told us, again and again, they made commitments to shield."

"And they did it in the worst possible way: in hyper-hyped, autobiographical, self-adulating accounts of their valiant struggle to withhold information from a grand jury despite that nagging inconvenience the rest of us know as the law."

Read all of it. (via Power Line)

Then check out Judith Miller's response in the latest round of mud slinging e-mails. Ugly.

If only Fitzgerald could / would indict these fools for hypocrisy.
--LynZee