Puke time as Risen identified his leakers as "patriots".
And just like tar baby, Risen don't know nuthin bout no NYT decision to hold the story for over a year till his book is ready for publication. "Above your paygrade?", Katie suggested. Risen appreciated Katie's response by nodding in agreement, and he must have liked it even better when Katie equated his dodge to one Norman Schwartz often used.
Today on IMUS, Howard Fineman gave a legitimate reason why TNYT covered Risen's revelations at this particular time. Fineman told Imus it was because the Times was tired of getting scooped by their own reporters, and they published book excerpts before the book was published so that wouldn't happen this time. (buncha bull)
Sounds like this is the new talking point
And scooped by what reporters??
Jason Blair??
Risen says that career employees risked their lives (pretty much literally, they could go to jail for life without parole if discovered). He says they did so for pure motives, I presume that means they thought it was imperative that they STOP this move by Bush as quickly as possible.
Except that, instead of talking to a beat reporter for a newspaper that would publish their story the next week, they talked to a guy writing a book that held the story for over a year.
Further, this guy, who seems to agree with them that their motives are pure and americans were having their rights trampled, decided that the rights of americans wasn't really nearly so important as his making a lot of money on his book sales.
In other words, if we accept at face value everything Risen is saying, we are left with the inescapable conclusion that the leakers are idiots, and he is a self-centered, greedy money-grubber.