According to Josh Gerstein, DOJ decided not to charge anyone in the illegal wiretap leak probe. The Justice Department has dropped its long-running criminal investigation of a lawyer who publicly admitted leaking information about President George W. Bush’s top-secret warrantless wiretapping program to The New York Times – disclosures that Bush vehemently denounced as a [...]

Why haven’t journalists shown any outrage–or even mere interest–in the news that the government systematically spied on journalists?

Russell Tice basically confirmed, once again, our suspicions: that the warrantless wiretap program was basically the government operating TIA under a new name. Strangely enough, Jello Jay Rockefeller (of all people) already told us that–and he told Dick Cheney too. Maybe that’s why Jello Jay was acting so squirrely about the program the other night.

The FISCR has stressed that its ruling did not rule on whether or not