Because the media deliberately misrepresents or sensationalizes their stories in order to create a mood of suspicion in America. They want to bring the Bush Administration down and will do anything to succeed. Dishonesty, deception and publishing national security secrets are mere minor details as far as the msm are concerned.
"Has the entire country gone mad?"
You could write a whole book to answer this question. Suffice to say half the country is going either pagan, socialist, communist, homosexual, or in general falling into a mood of rebellion against what is good and right. The media are the liars and rabble rousers behind this movement.