I am so tired of the word of the day, TREASON!!!!!, flying around the vacuous right-wing echo chamber on the international banking "story." This is the non-story of the year. The New York Times (and the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, LA Times, etc.) revealed nothing of substance (other than the lack of oversight, not a huge concern to the "evildoers")--yet of course, it is the NYT that is the whipping boy, not the other papers. And as Steve Chapman points out in the Chicago Tribune, if this was so important, why didn't the administration try to stop it?
However, I am NOT sending a big shout out to the New York Times. I think the NYT DESERVEDLY caught a tremendous amount of heat (and lost a HUGE batch of respect) over Judy Miller, Curveball and its role as head administration cheerleader leading up to the war. This episode is NYT Editor Bill Keller standing up (and protesting FAR too much) saying "Look at us! We're independent! No I really mean it, see, we're publishing "secret" stuff, aren't you proud of us?"
No, Bill, I'm not. You're a day (or three+ years) late and half a trillion dollars short.
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