I really like the last graf of the editorial:

When protesters interrupted the hearing, Mr. Skelton ordered them removed from the room, which is understandable. But then he said that they would be prosecuted. That seemed like an unnecessarily authoritarian response to people who just wanted to be heard.

Maybe the editorial board doesn’t get out much, but one of our problems on Capitol Hill is that the same jerks (usually the Code-Pink fanatics) come to every important hearing and start disrupting. And as yesterday, they don’t just do it all at once, they stagger it so that they can keep disrupting throughout. These classless and clueless hippies don’t come to be heard, they come solely to disrupt.

Prosecutions send a message to them and others that Congress is a serious institution that won’t tolerate such childish behavior. I hope they’re all punished to the fullest extent of the law, or perhaps even banished to Tehran.