Prize-Winning Journalism — Or Treason?

The Pulitzer Prizes are out, and it's no surprise that the winner in the national reporting category was the New York Times' expose from reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau on the Bushies' domestic-spying program. This was a story of Woodward-and-Bernstein proportions and highlights the problems faced by a free and independent press during a time of war.

Despite all of the historical evidence that a free and critical press is most necessary during time of war, some folks just don't get it. The right-leaning blog Power Line has a note today on The Pulitzer Prize for Treason. It's good reading in that it gets in the minds of the folks who buy into "unitary executive" reasoning.