More From the Treason Beat

It's been a tough stretch what with finals and all -- not a terribly inviting time to be blogging. But the grades are filed and now I'm baaaaack.

Since my last post, there's been lots of ink and pixels devoted to the controversy over whether the Pulitzer Prize committee is taking a stand against the Bush administration by awarding two of the prizes to stories that exposed U.S. tactics in fighting the war on terror -- both of them of dubious legality and both likely to further erode public and international support for U.S. actions.

Gambler and radio windbag and former drug czar Bill Bennett has added to to the conservative backlash against independent journalism by noting that New York Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau and Washington Post scribe Dana Priest shouldn't get awards but should rather "go to jail" for filling in the American people on what it is being done in their name.

Today, newspapers around the country ran Cal Thomas' rant that journalists who publish evidence of American wrongdoing in fighting terror are traitors.