They Are Just More Important Than You Are

I essentially told you the same thing yesterday here, but not quite as eloquently as Andrew C. McCarthy at National Review Online did yesterday so I'm linking to his article. By the way, he believes, and I agree, that prosecuting the Times would be deeply unsatisfying, mainly because those with the bully pulpits would go to extreme lengths to protect their own and only continue to frame the administration as Constitutional and Civil Rights stomping autocrats. His opinion about letting deranged dogs lie is here.

More over at NRO by Rich Lowry who discusses Bill Keller's self-appointment as Super Secret Special Spy Intelligence Czar (I added the "super secret special spy" part).