Those AP Subpoenas

[Commentary] The same press corps that has blessed every Obama Administration enforcement action and regulatory intrusion has suddenly concluded that the feds are dangerously overreaching. The reason? The government is now investigating the press. Welcome to the club, but we'd also add some context to the shouts of media outrage.

The press is exercised because the Justice Department issued a subpoena for the phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors as part of a criminal probe into a national-security leak. Some of the loudest protests are coming from those, such as the New York Times, that cheered the criminal pursuit of the leak to conservative columnist Robert Novak during the Bush years in the Valerie Plame case. Then the target was Scooter Libby (who wasn't even the leaker) while now it's someone who leaked to their mainstream comrades at AP.

Such double standards are one reason the public mistrusts the media.