Who in the world is Judith Miller?

Do you remember who Judith Miller is? Ring a bell?

She was the reporter who got sentenced to 18 months in the pokey for contempt of court for refusing to name names in the Valerie Plame case.  After her release on September 29, 2005, Miller agreed to disclose to the grand jury the identity of her source, Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. Miller and Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, have not disclosed to the New York Times Miller's role in covering the Valerie Plame story.

What prosecutors were fishing for was the government source who leaked information about a CIA operative. Which is against the law.

After her release on September 29, 2005, Miller agreed to disclose to the grand jury the identity of her source, Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. Miller and Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, have not disclosed to the New York Times Miller's role in covering the Plame story.

In case you were in cave during that time period, the left came after Libby with torches, pitchforks and a sense of righteous indignation, so here's the question...

Where's all that "righteous indignation" now? Where are all the folks exposing Obama Administration officials who out CIA operatives?

I'll tell you what I think...

I think that we are dealing with a group of people (liberals) who don't have any more righteousness in the personal convictions department, than the group of people (conservatives) who have a bad habit of erring on the side of going overboard.

The reason we are even having these types of discussions is rooted in our refusal to live by the US Constitution. Clearly the decision of whether or not the nation goes to war resides with Congress (Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution), but we have a history of walking around that pesky problem regardless of the Constitutional restriction.

If we are at war with another nation, the type of things we are talking about here are acts of treason, and the penalty is death. If we have again ignored our Constitution and are locked in a military engagement, the case for treason becomes much more difficult to make. In fact the natural spin off from that is exactly what happened... peaceniks who oppose war for any reason whatsoever, are the driving force behind how we deal with these matters legally.

America is a mess right now because we have lost our way. We've drifted so far from the baseline of freedom, the U.S. Constitution, that we are finding it to be increasingly difficult to deal with complicated matters. The difficulty lies in the approach to fixing things now. Instead of operated in much more clear and simple terms as the Constitution affords, we are now helplessly addicted to simply added more rules, more laws (which are themselves oftentimes unconstitutional) and eventually we will find ourselves unable to deal with the types of contrast in justice that you read about today.