Terrorists Are Stupid, But Not That Stupid A number of high profile conservatives are worked up about the recently published story on a US program investigating international financial transactions in a hunt for terrorists.

The story was published by NY Times, LA Times and Wall Street Journal but the outrage seems to focus on NY Times. For instance, Republican Congressman Peter King wants to investigate the newspaper. The Administration asked the NYT to not publish the story and the paper held the story for some time consider the request. That, apparently, allowed the other news media to catch up.

What is the problem wit news papers publishing these stories? No matter if it about international money transactions or phone calls - I think the terrorists figure we're doing that. Personally, I assumed we did.

The Government need to keep secret programs secret. After all, this is not like broadcasting troop movements like Rivera on Fox News. A free press is a good thing and the Administration is undermining it's ability to ask media to not publish really really important stories.

Instead, Frum and Cheney ought to spend their energy getting out of Iraq.  ¶ 8:41 AM