The media passes out Pulitzer for intel-leak stories, but I wonder if this time it doesn’t backfire on them in some way — or at least become a bigger-deal story.

It’s hard to get Americans too concerned that the government is going to be paying attention to their large money transfers (because most of us don’t make that much) like the media was able to bogusly spook people with the NSA wiretapping story. But on the same morning an al Qaeda plot on domestic targets is dismantled? More folks are going to think, “these FBI guys seem to be doing their job.” Why is the media trying to work against them?