Remember, These Are VERY SERIOUS PEOPLE. Right?

Remember when the Gingrich- and Hastert-led Republican Congresses of the 1990s thought it was a brilliant idea to use the Cox Report to publicly release highly classified nuclear weapons data while they falsely accused Bill Clinton and Wen Ho Lee of selling our nuclear secrets to the Evil Red Chinese?

Well, guuuueeesssss whaaaaaat:

According to the Post, the reason for the administration’s feverish effort to get legislation to expand its surveillance powers under FISA is that earlier this year a FISA Court judge declared a key portion of the administration’s program illegal. The ruling of course was secret. And it seems that until now the White House had kept this information hidden form Congress.

So why are we finding this out now? Well, that’s another interesting story. Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) went on Fox News Tuesday night and discussed the whole thing. But the very existence of the ruling is highly classified. So it seems he publicly revealed highly classified information.

To paraphrase the late great Fred Rogers: Can you say “idiotic boring tool”? I knew you could. ;-)