The Clinton-team caterwauling about ABC’s “Path to 9/11” was screechingly unpleasant, but then again, reputations are fragile things, and such docudramas invariably put the TV world’s imperative of entertaining over the perceived triviality of truth. There was reason to react.

There was no good reason, however, for the chilling threats of some Democrats against free speech — a favorite of hypocrites who are forever accusing conservatives of a fault that emphatically belongs to the left, a disloyalty to the precious principle of liberty.