7 Reasons Why the Media Shouldn't Keep Eric Holder's Secrets

The dustup over whether journalists should meet privately with Attorney General Eric Holder is a forest-for-the-trees flap.

The existential issue still tangling Washington in knots a dozen years after 9/11 is how to balance our primal need to protect U.S. security with our fundamental belief in civil liberties.

Six months into a second term, President Obama seems to realize that he and his predecessor let the pendulum swing too far. The president is recalibrating the so-called war on terrorism and reconsidering its shadowy tactics, including the use of drones and the methods for investigating people who leak national security secrets.

That brings us to the Holder-media issue. While being the ultimate inside-baseball story, it does highlight the Obama administration’s ignorance of the media’s role in Washington as well as the malpractice that permeates its communications operation.

How the administration handles a micro issue like this may have a negative impact on the existential struggle. A forest, after all, is a gathering of trees.

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