I'm watching my Tivo'd broadcast of CNN's "Reliable Sources" from yesterday with Powerlineblog's John Hinderaker regarding the potential for criminal charges to be brought against The New York Times and The Washington Post for leaking of classified national security information -- the NSA surveillance program in the case of the Times and the once-secret detention centers in Europe in the case of the Post. You can find the video here if you're interested, but I have to highlight a couple of comments from Lucy Dalglish of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press for their utter dimwittedness.

Well, you know Howie [Kurtz, host and Washington Post media reporter], in the last five years the rate of classification of documents in this country has more than doubled. Last year, 15.6 million documents were classified. It's an outrageous number. We're having the state secrets claim in federal courts being raised...

News flash for Dalglish: We're in a WAR! Maybe you've missed that little fact because it appears that you may be suffering from cranial-rectal impaction. Seriously, should it be any surprise whatsoever that we would classify more documents during wartime than we do during peacetime? Even some newspapers are bright enough to figure this out.

Before 9/11, the San Diego Union-Tribune used to publish a map of that displayed everything from the West Coast to the Middle East with a grid overlayed in the paper the day one of the San Diego-based carrier fleets left on deployment. Two or three times a week the paper would publish the coordinates of the fleet so schoolkids could map their parent's whereabouts during the six months they were gone.
The Union-Tribune doesn't do this anymore. Why? Because we're not completely stupid.

I'm not sure I can say the same for Dalglish.