Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: A "Pulitzer Prize for Treason":
"Yesterday, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau received well-deserved Pulitzer Prizes for 'national reporting' based on their (year-long-delayed) disclosure of the President's illegal NSA eavesdropping program. That award has set off a new slew of bitter commentary from Bush supporters, including Bennett, proclaiming that Risen and Lichtblau belong in prison. On his radio show this morning, the great free press crusader Bennett said: 'I think what they did is worthy of jail.'
Powerline, as always, helpfully expounds on this definitively American principle of throwing reporters in jail who publish stories which damage the political interests of the Commander-in-Chief during a Time of War. In an item entitled 'Pulitzer Prize for Treason,' Scott 'Big Trunk' Johnson says that Risen and Lichtblau won the Pulitzer 'for their treasonous contribution to the undermining of the highly classified National Security Agency surveillance program of al Qaeda-related terrorists,' which -- according to Johnson, 'is a particularly serious crime insofar as it lends assistance to the enemy' -- all together, now -- 'in a time of war.'"
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