SEAN HANNITY’S big scoop is not generating the headlines it ought to. The memo Hannity obtained and made public that details the plans by Democratic staff on the Senate Intelligence Committee to politicize the committee’s investigations in the service of partisan politics far overshadows in importance Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld’s memo pushing the Pentagon to think about the hard problems ahead in the war on terrorism, but it has received significantly less attention than the Rumsfeld memo did. Why?

Three reasons could account for the disparity in treatment: