Espionage Is A Kind Of Free Speech?

If you’re ever feeling blue and need a good laugh, the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal do the trick.  Who knows what absolute howlers you’ll find?  Maybe it will be those enterprising apologists for illegality, Casey and Rivkin, laying out the legal argument for sinking Cuba to the bottom of the Caribbean (“if we take a more nuanced view of international law, we will find that island nations really belong to the international community at large and can be disposed of as and when necessary”) or the odd Henninger column in which he explains that cancer would be cured if the Republicans became more competitive in New England.  If those sound too reasonable for their respective authors, that’s because those pieces were never written. 

This one, however, is a very real Dorothy Rabinowitz piece in which she tells us that the case against the two AIPAC lobbyists charged with espionage undermines the First Amendment.  No, really.  Why didn’t Pollard and Hanssen think of that one?