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I think the otherwise always wise Kevin Drum misses the key word here that turns this into something other than a denial. The key word is "randomly." If you're writing about Hollywood or Massachusetts State House politics, you're probably fine. If you're writing about national security, on the other hand, and not doing what Stephen Colbert recommends, which is just typing what they tell you from the podium and running spellcheck, the approach favored by generations of Pravda reporters and their now extinct political masters, you may not be. Gonzales very pointedly in his interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos was not-committal about whether reporters themselves would be prosecuted for publishing stories such as CIA black sites prisons and the NSA warrantless domestic surveillance programs. More from Walter Pincus, Eric Lichtblau and Crooks and Liars.