The fault lies with Bush

The big brouhaha over the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal revealing secrets about the government tracking of terrorists' finances hurting our war on terror can be summed up by the last paragraph of this enlightening article by Larry C. Johnson:

The furor over the "SWIFT" story has little to do with keeping America safe and a lot to do with keeping Republicans in power. If the leak was so devastating there would be a full court investigation of who in the Federal Government spoke to the reporters. But, as shown above, this information was not secret and was already in the public domain. It appears that Bush, with the advice of Karl Rove, sees demonizing the New York Times as a great way to energize a flagging political base. When it comes to hurting our nation's security and putting our citizens at risk, the fault lies with Bush, not the New York Times.

Amen