[Jaysun]

The criminals are those that provide her with classified information.

[Cyber Liberty]

No. A "common criminal" is somebody who steals hubcaps, or at worst kills a few people. Dana's doing her best to see to it that people will die by the thousands.

Pol Pot wasn't a "common criminal" either.

[Cicero]

As the article points out, freedom of the press, like the analogous attorney-client privilege, does not cover complicity in a crime, especially a major felony.

A lawyer is not obliged to rat on a client who proposes to commit a crime, I don’t believe, but he could be jailed if he agrees to participate in it.

Dana Priest, like several other reporters, has knowingly and willingly participated in outright crimes, as an accomplice or possibly as the instigator. Freedom of the press does not cover such criminal activities.

Yes, the worst criminals are the scum in the CIA, FBI, State Department, and congress who leak these sensitive classified documents and violate their oaths of office. But the reporters are complicit. They should be prosecuted and jailed until they reveal their sources at the very least.

The Justice Department understands this. But, regretably, it does nothing.

[garyhope]

Common traitor is more like it.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://review.ucsc.edu/fall-03/images/AFGHANI.JPG&imgrefurl=http://review.ucsc.edu/fall-03/alumni_profile.html&h=247&w=401&sz=60&hl=en&start=21&um=1&tbnid=0oC9UuDJrukhcM:&tbnh=76&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDana%2BPriest%2B%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DGGLJ,GGLJ:2006-34,GGLJ:en%26sa%3DN

[garyhope]

Common traitor is more like it.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://review.ucsc.edu/fall-03/images/AFGHANI.JPG&imgrefurl=http://review.ucsc.edu/fall-03/alumni_profile.html&h=247&w=401&sz=60&hl=en&start=21&um=1&tbnid=0oC9UuDJrukhcM:&tbnh=76&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDana%2BPriest%2B%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DGGLJ,GGLJ:2006-34,GGLJ:en%26sa%3DN

[rfp1234]

Is the Ayatollah Shi’ite?

[Cowboy Bob]

Her professional success depends in large part on her ability to ferret out secrets...

Isn't she the one who looks like a ferret?

[Brad from Tennessee]

Going back to Watergate, the Washington Post has always hounded Republicans but in the old days investigative reporters actually worked for a living and had some ethics. Today the Post is mostly peopled by political activists posing as reporters. Some partisan hack, pencil-pusher delivers Dana Priest classified documents on a silver platter, she puts them in the paper and wins the Pulitzer Prize at the cost of American's safety. With papers like the Post and a town full of traitorous bureaucrats, Al Qaeda will be around for a long time.