Remember the Plame case, where we werre told that any leak of classified information, no matter how insignificant, is a major problem for our national security? Well the New York Times just published an article on the NSA full of classified information gotten from leakers, and not only that, but the White House specifically asked them not to print the story as it had information that could hurt Americans. The NYT, bastion of Bush-haters everywhere, decided to be hypocrites and print it anyway. Why is it ok for the New York Times to give away importnant national secrets, but if an administration official allegedly told a reporter some minor secret information, then he should be thrown in jail even before his guilt is established? And that is the exact attitude they seemed to imply in their many articles on that mess. The answer is that you need to look at which actions can hurt Bush. In this case, it hurts Bush to reveal this information, whereas with the Plame thing, the leaked information helped Bush.

I'm not saying Bush is god or anything, but it would be nice if the New York Times and our intelligence community didn't act against him every chance they get, no matter the consequences. These Bush-hating entities definitely follow the "ends justify the means."