The NYT vs. America?

Dan Froomkin of the WaPo has some pretty solid thoughts on the political game the White House is playing on the banking story. My initial impulse was to side with Bush in slamming the New York Times for writing the story exposing the banking surveillance. But when I noticed that the White House was only going after the NYT, and not the LA Times and the Wall Street Journal, both of which also published the story, I started to think that this is probably not about principle, but partisan politics.

Maybe I'm wrong. Still, I simply find it almost impossible to believe this Administration in matters like this.