Oh Great, Telecoms Get Immunity From Prosecution, But DOJ Foaming At Mouth To Prosecute The Whistleblower!

As most of my readers know, the passing of the FISA bill and the protection -- retroactive immunity from prosecution -- of the telecommunication companies that allowed the Bush Administration to not only spy on ordinary Americans, but amass a portfolio of everything from emails, to instant messages to telephonic communication, pisses me off to no end. It was, and still is, the reason I do not generally get all gaga over Obama, because he supported that bill, as did many Democrats.

Now, it appears, that the Bush Administration's Department of Justice wants to prosecute to the fullest, the whistle blower of the government's spying, and they are foaming at the mouth to prosecute in some fashion, the New York Times for publishing the information.

Glenn Greenwald has a pretty snarky piece up about this double standard, which everyone should read, in its entirety.

One of the most inane claims of the last eight years -- and that's obviously saying something -- was the hysterical accusation that national security had been harmed, that our "intelligence capabilities" had been revealed to The Terrorists, all because The New York Times informed the country that the President was eavesdropping without the warrants required by law rather than with them.

I can already feel the tears coming from the eyes of the Statue of Liberty. And, I am afraid, America will continue to get lower in the gutter for a long while before sanity finally takes hold and rights this teetering country.