Continuing a dubious tradition, the Pulitzer committee has just given its award for public service to the latest couple of newspapers, the Guardian and Washington Post, for doing what they can to undermine this country’s national security. The “public service” was to publish various tidbits from the vast compilation of classified material that Edward Snowden stole from the National Security Agency before absconding with it to wherever he could find political asylum. Claiming only to seek a society where privacy was respected, naturally he would wind up choosing . . . Vladimir Putin’s not-so-new Russia, one of the world’s leading police states, where he’s become a prize source for its intelligence agencies. Mr. Snowden is less an ace of spies than an ace of hypocrites.
All of which raises the question: Is it too late to give Alger Hiss a Pulitzer?
Editorial, Pages 18 on 04/16/2014