The Unusual Suspects

With an opening paragraph this wingnutty, you know there's some good stuff to come next:

With the major media already under fire for compromising the war on radical Islamic terrorism, a recent court decision suggests that the media may have something else to hide in connection with their conduct in national security and terrorism-related cases.

According to the author, Roger Aronoff, some New York Times reporters discovered that Islamic charities were under investigation right after 9/11. Who were these America-hating left-wing radicals and what did they do?

Two New York Times reporters, Judith Miller and Philip Shenon, learned of these plans, and called each group for comment on the threatened government actions.

Believing those calls "endangered the agents executing the searches and alerted the targets, allowing them to take steps mitigating the effect of the freeze and searches," federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald convened a grand jury investigation into the disclosure of its plans regarding the foundations. He wanted to know who in the government had leaked the information.

So I'm supposed to believe that Judith Miller, in the year before she was writing fiction in the New York Times to help Bush and Cheney convince us there were WMD's in Iraq, was actually trying to help terrorist organizations evade arrest? And Patrick Fitzgerald was trying to root out the leakers in the government who were undermining the War on Terror. Well, actually, that last part makes sense to me, but should be creating an unhealthy amount of cognitive dissonance for Mr. Aronoff.