Remember when conservatives made noises about prosecuting The New York Times for treason for reporting on George Bush's program to spy on Americans without warrants?
Will the same sort of furor be raised against Michigan Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra for leaking state secrets?
ABC News reports:
"In an opinion article published in the New York Post Thursday, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., reported the top-secret budget for human spying had decreased -- the type of detail normally kept under wraps for national security reasons.
"'The 2008 Intelligence Authorization bill cut human-intelligence programs," Hoekstra wrote in the piece, in which he also criticized 'leaks to the news media.'
"Formerly the chairman of the intelligence committee, Hoekstra is now its highest ranking Republican. In its recent budget authorizations, that committee kept from public view all figures and most discussion of spending on such classified items as human spying. Hoekstra's apparent slip was first noted on the liberal Web site, Raw Story."
"Apparent slip"? How about "hypocritcal move"?
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