Dana Priest, a reporter for the 'Washington Post,' was on 'Meet the Press' today defending the 'New York Times' outing of the financial tracking tool used so effectively in the war on terror. No surprise there. She also revealed to us what her role is as a journalist.  I guess I'm old school on this, but journalists for newspapers, report on news and events that happened, and they can do that until they are blue in the face. Ms. Priest, however, is of the belief that the framers of the Constitution guarantee her role to oversee, to act as an overseer of the government. Unelected of course. Making it her mission to expose government secrets. Any interest there in finding out some al-Qaida secrets Dana?
No pretense on Dana's part, yet no one seemed to notice. That the press is full of themselves, to the point of undermining the war effort, is becoming more obvious with each leak of a national security secret.
Full Transcript here, quote below is on page 5. (emphasis added)
MS. PRIEST: Well, it’s not a crime to publish classified information. And this is one of the things Mr. Bennett keeps telling people that it is. But, in fact, there are some narrow categories of information you can’t publish, certain signals, communications, intelligence, the names of covert operatives and nuclear secrets.
Now why isn’t it a crime? I mean, some people would like to make casino gambling a crime, but it is not a crime. Why isn’t it not a crime? Because the framers of the Constitution wanted to protect the press so that they could perform a basic role in government oversight, and you can’t do that. Look at the criticism that the press got after Iraq that we did not do our job on WMD. And that was all in a classified arena. To do a better job—and I believe that we should’ve done a better job—we would’ve again, found ourselves in the arena of...
Then she assumes some guilt for 'not doing our job on WMD'. Dana, who died and left you President?
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