Why is the W.H. not foaming at the mouth, bout the "AP traitors"

Who leaked to the AP?

Why isn't Cheney, and every bird-brain at Fox, calling for their immediate execution as traitors?

Why isn't Gonzalses hauling these reporters into court, to demand that they reveal their sources?

Want to take an educated guess?

TPMmuckraker August 18, 2006 01:03 PM:

The Bush administration hates leaks, especially when they involve classified information. They and their allies have made that abundantly and forcefully clear (Plame affair aside). Attorney General Al Gonzales has mounted an investigation into a classified leak to the New York Times; the president and vice president have said the paper's publishing of classified information has been 'very damaging' and 'disgraceful.' One GOP lawmaker even charged the paper with treason.

That's why my antennae started buzzing when I read this paragraph from an Aug. 12 AP story about U.S. government efforts to trace possible domestic links to the recently-foiled London terror plot:

Two. . . U.S. counterterrorism officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation, said the British suspects placed calls to several cities in the United States before their arrests. At least some of the calls were placed to people in New York, Washington, Chicago and Detroit, one official said. The suspects are all British citizens, mostly men in the 20s and 30s of Pakistani descent.