Snooping on Journalists is Bad, Unless . . .

JustOneMinute: "The NY Times provides context for Obama by reviewing the recent history of leak investigations. Without, of course, any mention of the Plame debacle, since that was a sincere effort to invent a scandal and bring down the Administration, with reporters jailed as collateral damage."

'via Blog this'

When I initially compared the Plame investigation to the Rosen leak investigation, my thought was: here's an example where the press is actually holding the Obama administration to a higher standard. Obama is only reading journalists emails, and everyone is upset. Bush not only investigated journalist, but put them in jail, with no outrage.

But then I remembered that all of the jailing of journalists was done by a special prosecutor who was trying to jail Bush administration officials.

So really the moral of the story is: snooping on journalists is bad; jailing journalists to try and bring down an obscure Bush administration official for lying to investigators about disclosing the identity of a non-covert CIA bureaucrat is okay.