There were NO facts in your post. And I quote your post:

After Cheney, Rumsfield, Libby the head of the CIA and DeLay all go to jail for violating the Laws of the United States as passed by Congress. Then someone points out that President Bush ROUTINELY declassifies stories so he can use them politically. Then, and only then will I suggest the Press should also be jailed. That includes ALL of Fox since they also, ROUTINELY, lie through their teeth, then claim they were ‘defending America.’

There are NO Facts there!

In this case, legality comes from the Constitution not from Congress or the Judiciary. If Congress passes a law outside it’s authority, that law itself is illegal.

You might think the Executive Power does not extend to eavesdropping on calls made by our enemies to our residents. Calling the President’s actions illegal because they went against one Congressional statute is ignoring the biggest issue.

Wishful post Observer. (I’d say wishful thinking but thinking is something Observer is are not doing. )

That said, I would not support criminal charges (other than Obstruction, a given situation warranting same) against the media types for doing what they do, no matter how repugnant their individual priorities and ethics.

The criminals I want to see buried under federal penitentiaries for leaking classified information are those entrusted with access to it, especially as part of their professional or job responsibilities.

And in instances such as the NSA/FISA and “secret CIA prisons” leaks, where the apparent motive for leaking is to affect domestic political and election circumstances, I’d opt for sentences of Life Without Parole, or even a death penalty (and I oppose capital punishment for run-of-the-mill murder and mayhem).

One word, though, about those journalists who may think they can become First Amendment heroes by sitting out a “life of the Grand Jury” stint of a few weeks or months:

A 1986 federal charge and conviction of Criminal Contempt for Obstructing Justice, was based on the Defendant’s Fifth Amendment plea before a Grand Jury and (in spite of) ‘Life of the Grand Jury’ incarceration for 4 months, was confirmed by an appeals court (prior jeopardy ruled not applicable), appealed to the Supreme Court with cert denied, and the Defendant was sentenced to and served four years in a Minnesota federal pen.

Notice that the First Amendment merely prohibits “abridging freedom … of the press,” it doesn’t address “protecting anonymity of sources,” while the Fifth Amendment’s “… nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself…” is seemingly an absolute.

Is this stupidity, bias, or wishful thinking?