Your Security is in This Man's Hands

Bill Keller continues to prove that he really is as intellectually lacking -- or as dishonest -- as feared.

Radio Blogger has posted the transcript of Keller's friendly interview with Charlie Rose, in which Keller asserts, among other things, that anger at his paper regarding the SWIFT program disclosure is due to administration embarrassment over the leaks. The mind boggles. No one could actually be angry about the paper compromising national security and endangering fellow Americans, in Keller's self-serving view.

Keller also says that nothing about the SWIFT program has changed since the story broke...perhaps he hasn't heard about Belgium now "investigating" the SWIFT program, throwing future cooperation into question.

Keller again: "Nobody in the administration, and no member of Congress that I'm aware of has claimed that any consequence has occurred as a result of this story, or any unpleasant consequence."

Well, if the New York Times interrupted top-secret investigations, such as the one that led to yesterday's arrests, does he expect the administration to immediately publicize the consequences of the Times' publication?

Meanwhile Congress may be too fearful of the media's power to subpoena Keller and the staffs at the N.Y. Times and L.A. Times to investigate the leaks. Not exactly reassuring.

Read the entire Keller interview and consider what the consequences might be of liberal government bureaucrats leaking to this man and his paper in order to undermine our nation's security. The plot uncovered for New York transit, planned for this September 11th, should be a wake-up call to everyone.

But until the Justice Department or Congress are prepared to act to prevent more disclosures, it seems that the United States now has a President Bill Keller.

I don't remember voting for him, do you?