Hiatt may have been taken hostage by Bushian insurgents

* digby: ""Has it occurred to any of these critics that Hiatt may have been taken hostage by Bushian insurgents? The discordant almost drunken tone can only lead one to the conclusion that this editorial was coerced. It wanders so far from the facts that you have to figure that some sort of dark forces were at work in producing such an bizarre and disconcerting cataloging of lies and misapprehensions. Indeed, you would almost think that Hiatt went out of his way to signal that he was writing this editorial under duress --- kind of like that POW who blinked morse code in that North Vietnamese propaganda film. He had to know that discerning readers would guess that he couldn't be serious considering that the very day it was published his own paper was reporting the facts entirely differently. He's actually quite fiendishly clever."

* kleiman: "So, on the Bush theory that underlies the Franklin prosecution and the criminal investigation into the leak about the NSA's warrantless-wiretapping program, it was lawful for Libby to deceive reporters, but would have been a felony for anyone else to set them straight."