05-16-2013, 01:15 AM
Lemon Drop wrote:
you can still condemn the leaks of national security information and not support what DOJ did. There are legal ways to investigate leaks that don't involved trampling on the first amendment. I'm sure Sen. Feinstein is not a fan of what DOJ has done to the AP and apparently others.
That could be but think about how someone in the DOJ may have factored in the "stop the leaks" mentality that was at a fever pitch not so long ago into their calculations about how hard they should pursue this line of investigation. What they did was probably just a bit more than what they had done before - creeping rationalizations driven by an overheated atmosphere of "stop the leaks!" Not excusing what happened (see my earlier post about this in another thread), but I don't think you can divorce the decisions that were made in the DOJ from the political environment that existed after the leaks came out that started this whole mess.