If you haven't already read this, do it now. It's an account of how the New York Times didn't feel as outraged about the Clinton administration's wide-ranging Echelon spying program as they do about the Bush administration's comparatively limited surveillance program.

I've often said of the Times editorial page that it is partisan, not principled. This just shows that the partisanship has leapt the walls that traditionally kept news and opinion divided.