Meanwhile, Over On The Backburner...Gov't Spying Dept.

Scott Horton, one of the unsung heroes of this generation of government watchers, reminds us of the things that don't make the headlines because we've got health care, and Haiti and fuck all to think about:

Because of redactions, we don’t know exactly which reporters were targeted, but we do know that “leak” investigations were carried out following Dana Priest’s Pulitzer Prize-winning disclosures about the CIA black site torture system and James Risen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning disclosures of a National Security Agency surveillance program that involved the warrantless examination of communications data relating to tens of millions of Americans.