we should all be grateful to the washington post for revealing black site program and to the nytimes for the nsa story. they have done america and the world a great service in fending off totalitarianism. but the deference they have shown to the administration in the process amounts to a kind of connivance in the criminal activity. the post did not reveal the locations of the secret internment facilities, which it seems have been picked up and moved to new hidden locations. they cited "national security issues." on the contrary, there should have been an angry mob outside of each of these facilities, and a process by which, let's say, the european union actually arrested the people working there. the black site program is breathtakingly criminal, and deserves no more deference than you would accord embezzlers you'd just detected or something. indeed, likely you could have saved people's lives by publishing the locations immediuately and without notifying the administration of your intention to do so. that the nytimes sat on the nsa story for a year is incomprehensible. you cannot sit there and tell me that publication of the general idea that the president authorized illegal surveillance helps anybody's terrorist conspiracy, no matter what vicious little chumps like mark mclellan may say. here again, there was an obligation to put a stop to breathtaking abuse of liberty by publicizing it. so, meanwhile, just for the hell of it, i'll mention that a time reporter tipped karl rove off that he was being investigated by the special prosecutor, and point to the role of bob woodward in covering up the administration's strategy to manipulate us into war. it would be nice to have a truly free press at the upper levels, if you get me: major newspapers that are not both investigating and sleeping with dick cheney.