GUESS WHO’S TRYING TO SILENCE A JOURNALIST! In Ashcroft’s America, nobody’s freedom of speech is safe from assault. Oh, wait. . . .

Washington – The Illinois journalism program that had students try to find the identity of the Washington Post’s “Deep Throat” informant “should be disaccredited” and the teacher who oversaw the project “should be spanked,” said Carl Bernstein, one of the reporters whose stories on the Watergate scandal led to President Nixon’s resignation.

“The last thing students in a journalism class should be doing is trying to find out who other reporters’ sources are,” said Bernstein, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine who broke the stories with colleague Bob Woodward. “They should be learning how to protect sources.”

Heh. Free speech for me, but not for thee. As usual.