The Secret Service is investigating the online posting of personal information about Republication National Convention delegates. The probe is focused on anonymous posts to a Web site operated by the Independent Media Center, self-described as “a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate and passionate tellings of the truth.”

The most interesting part of this ‘investigation’ is that the information posted is publicly available. So, to review, the Secret Service is investigating the public dissemination of publicly available information. The rationale behind this inquiry is that the posting of this information could subject the delegates to harassment, acts of violence, or identity theft.

Apparently, the people who plan such acts are motivated enough to harass delegates, commit violent acts, and steal identities, but just a bit too lazy to actually seek out the information on their own. So, really, the Secret Service is doing us a favor by investigating the enablers of terrorist slackers who would never have the attention span to actually watch the delegates’ faces plastered across television screens.