WSJ: Jailing Reporters - The press corps unleashed a prosecutor on itself.

opinionjournal.com ^ | July 1, 2005 | Editorial

[OESY]

What part of "hoisted on one's own petard" do they not understand?

[queenkathy]

for later reading

[speedy]

Those petards have a way of getting you in the end.

[demkicker]

Well, well, well... Guess we'll soon know who this Deeper Throat is, or should their nickname be Deep Doo Doo?

[ILS21R]

I love it when a plan comes together.

[Edit35]

It makes my day just to watch the NY Times squirm.

[Americanexpat]

"...Guess we'll son know who this Deeper Throat is,..."

I hope it was her husband.

[sgtbono2002]

I never thought of that, but they did bring it on themselves.

If they had let sleeping dogs lie they would have gotten away clean, But noooooo they had to keep pushing. Its kinda funny.

[stocksthatgoup]

"Once the [Supreme] Court denied cert., I decided we aren't above the law."
In other words before the Court denied cert.....we were above the law!

[demkicker]

I hope it was her husband.

Now that would be just toooooo delicious! Thanks for putting a smile on my face this morning. I needed one!

[HEY4QDEMS]

My gut tells me the leaker is Joe Wilson.

Probably just the conspiracy theorist within me.

[verity]

"Jailing Reporters"

This is acceptable. :-)

[LachlanMinnesota]

By now, the notes will have been edited themselves, so reflect the disclosure by a dead freeper...any one want to bet?

[Texan5]

The presstitutes should have remembered to be careful what they wished for...

[FreedomPoster]

I just hope the name comes out in the near future.

Since the Lefties were particularly rabid about how Rove and Rumsfeld had engineered this supposed "outing" of Plame, it would be nice to see who really did it. And your conjecture is high on my list, too.

[Zacs Mom]

lol ~ I've a splitting sinus headache this morning (I accidental went to bed without my allergy medicine) and when I read your comment I could not for the life of me think of the meaning of the word "petard". So I decided to quickly look it up ~ when I read the entire definition from Answers.com I about snorted coffee out my nose! LOL

pe·tard
n.

1. A small bell-shaped bomb used to breach a gate or wall.
2. A loud firecracker.

[French pétard, from Old French, from peter, to break wind, from pet, a breaking of wind, from Latin p?ditum, from neuter past participle of p?dere, to break wind.]

WORD HISTORY The French used pétard, “a loud discharge of intestinal gas,” for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. “To be hoist by one's own petard,” a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means “to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices.” The French noun pet, “fart,” developed regularly from the Latin noun p?ditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd–, “fart.”

[conservativecorner]

Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor. :>)

[LiberationIT]

How does Karl Rove do it???!!!

[Condor51]

Actually I think all most 'journalists' should be jailed - and just for the hell of it.

[sausageseller]

My gut tells me the leaker is Joe Wilson.

One could only hope.