If only he’d released this version. Iowahawk has a rough draft of Bill Keller’s letter explaining his publishing decision:

It’s an unusual and powerful thing, this freedom that our founders gave to the press. Who are the editors of The New York Times (or the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Jihadi Accountant and other publications that also ran the banking story) to disregard the wishes of the President and his appointees? I’ll tell you who we are, pal. We are journalists – the people whom the inventors of this country specifically appointed to be the protectors of this little experiment we call the “human race” against the privations of out-of-control Texas Oil Nazis. And if you check your Constitution, I don’t think you’ll see anything in there about the right to clog up the press’s inbox with your stupid Rush Limbaugh talking points.