[Sam Hill]

Are you a parrot?

The quote is thought by Jefferson scholars to be a paraphrase of Franklin's.

But in any case all of your prattling about the Founders is entirely pointless.

If these reporters were breaking the law, they should be investigated by all legal means, including "wiretaps" if necessary.

If found guilty of being a party to the leaking of classified information vital to our national defense in a time of war, the Founders of whom you speak so ignorantly would have hanged them.

Lincoln would have too.

[George W. Bush]

If found guilty of being a party to the leaking of classified information vital to our national defense in a time of war, the Founders of whom you speak so ignorantly would have hanged them.

And what, precisely, is the information they were supposed to have leaked? Is that a secret too?

Or is sour apples over who forced them to reveal that they themselves leaked spontaneously declassified info about Plamegate?

What exactly is this national security threat so dire you are willing to abridge freedom of the (egg-sucking) press?