Prosecute the Times. Newspapers deserve a fair trial too.

An Open Message to the Right: Please, please, please keep talking about taking the NY Times to court over this. Please lean on the Bush administration, Congress, your drug-addled-viagra-popping pundits, and anyone else who will listen. Please get this before a real court of law.

Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see the Republican Right schooled by their own conservative justices on the rule of law, the power of precedent, and the freedoms of the press. Nothing would bring a greater smile to my face than to see Chief Justice Roberts hand down the unanimous Supreme Court ruling telling the Bush administration exactly where it can get off.

Is it possible that things may not go the way I see them? Sure. The Pentagon Papers case (Ny Times v United States 1971) was a pro curium decision and it didn't set down a great deal of terribly concrete precedent, but a great deal has been built upon it since that time. The Court could reverse its position and it could find against the Times.

But I can't help but notice that the Right (and many of our more Conservative 'Viners) shrieked in unbridled self-rightous fury when Murtha contended that the Marine shooters had killed civilians in cold blood, yet seems more than willing to bandy about words like "Treason" when dealing with the Times reporters.