WHAT HATH KELLER WROUGHT:

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales raised the possibility yesterday that New York Times journalists could be prosecuted for publishing classified information based on the outcome of the criminal investigation underway into leaks to the Times of data about the National Security Agency’s surveillance of terrorist-related calls between the United States and abroad.

Those editorial demands for leak investigations in the Plame affair were ill-advised, as many pointed out at the time.