All the hypocrisy that's fit . . .

James Taranto has a devastating round-up of the hypocrisy of the NYTimes and its columnists on the Valerie Plame affair. The Times pushed for a special prosecutor and got one.

Since then, the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, has subpoenaed several reporters, two of whom, Judith Miller of the New York Times and Matt Cooper of Time, have refused to testify before a grand jury and are now threatened with jail.

And the Times suddenly notices what lawyer-bloggers have been saying from the beginning, that original leak wasn't even illegal.

There seem to be a lot of naked emperors in the press these days, screaming about the damage this will do to press freedom.

Taranto makes an excellent point: " Such an outcome might have been avoided if journalists--notably including the Times' editorialists and columnists--had treated Wilson's accusations with responsibility and skepticism in the first place."