Closed meetings of official bodies normally are - and should be - anathema to journalists the public must depend upon to know what government officials are doing with the people’s business. So why the free pass from the media earlier this week for Senate Democrats who banished reporters and spectators, dimmed the lights and closed the doors of the U.S. Senate? This question is especially intriguing because Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, and his Democrat colleagues demanded the closed doors to discuss senior government officials leaking information to journalists during the run-up to the War in Iraq. Reid and...