Matt Stoller published a letter from rightwing financier Howard Rich threatening to publicize the names of donors to progressive causes. Rich offered no reason for publicizing the names, but suggested they would be tied to any criminal actions these causes might engage in, including voter registration fraud.

Obviously these threats against progressive donors are outrageous. But let's use Rich's framework and turn the mirror around to conservative causes and their supporters.

Voter registration fraud is about as harmless a crime as there is. If a lazy voter registration worker turns in a registration in the name of "Mickey Mouse," that will not produce an election-changing vote unless "Mickey Mouse" shows up to vote with a valid photo ID. What are the chances of that?

Conservative groups, on the other hand, have committed the most heinous of crimes - include promoting the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which is a war crime under the Geneva conventions.

So when will conservative advocates of war crimes be "publicized" - both groups like PNAC, their funders, and their ideological advocates?