What, me worry? What terrorist threat? What law? These should be the slogans of those who are not in the least concerned about the damage to our nation’s security resulting from the recent leaks of classified information to the New York Times, Washington Post, and US News and World Report. As far as they’re concerned, the individuals endangering our security by breaking the law and endangering our security are heroes. Here’s a dozen examples:

    The American Prospect is willing to bet that the NSA leak investigation “gets to the bottom of things” faster than the Valerie Plame leak investigation.

    Intoxination says that “[t]he hypocrisy of the administration shines through in this action.” The author adds that “Bush is now an accomplice to the leak after the fact.” and that the Valerie Plame case “has been going on and can be used as a lesson of what to do and not what to do before going to the grand jury.”

    NewsHog chimes in with “[o]nly the Bush team and its sycophants are still attempting to defend the spying on American citizens that is the first cause of the leaks.”

    Taylor Marsh say that “[o]ur petulant president is finally getting an investigation he believes in” and adds “[t]he leaker may indeed have to pay a heavy price for having blown the whistle on our power grabbing prez, but he or she did our democracy a favor . . .”

    Kevin Drum avers that “Bush circumvented the law with warrantless searches, but it’s the whistleblower who’s facing a criminal investigation.”

    The Carpetbagger Report chimes in with “Bush circumvented the law with warrantless searches, but it’s the whistleblower who’s facing a criminal investigation.”

    Hullabaloo offers this thought: “I assume this also means that nobody from the White House will be able to comment in any way since there is an ongoing investigation.”

    The Left Coaster, befitting its name, says this: “The Bush Administration is giving us a confirmation this morning that to them, there are good leaks, and then there are bad leaks. And they sure hate to be exposed as lawbreakers, don’t they?”

    WTF Is It Now? sees it this way: “With all other problems solved, Bush’s handpicked cronies in the Bush Justice Department have opened an investigation into who leaked the information about Bush’s secret domestic spying program.”

    Drinking Liberally sounds like he has been: “How stinking charming is it that the WH now denounces leakers???”

    Ruminate This is really perturbed: “We already know all we need to know about how these clowns operate. Anyone who stands in the way or challenges their version of reality is the enemy . . .”

    Why Now? says that this “is about embarrassment and Presidential criminality, not an intelligence leak.”