Shooting the messenger

Not content with a war they can't win in Iraq, and grumblings about war with several other countries (but what happened to the invasion of Syria?), and not content with a "war on terror," "war on drugs," war on truth, war on rationality, war on honesty, war on other people's faces,... the administration starts up a war on the press (using our money, by the way) or - how do you say in that language of free press when it causes personal pain - "leaks."

"There's a tone of gleeful relish in the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries, their appetite for withholding information, and the hints that reporters who look too hard into the public's business risk being branded traitors," said New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, in a statement responding to questions from The Washington Post. "I don't know how far action will follow rhetoric, but some days it sounds like the administration is declaring war at home on the values it professes to be promoting abroad."