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Originally posted by Joeaksa
Someone "in the know" who wanted this leaked broke the law by giving this info to the NYT. First of all this person needs to be identified, prosecuted and when convicted, thrown in jail. This is black and white, that you do not disclose classified material. When you have a security clearance you are "recleared" every six months and sign a statement to this effect. I still have several of mine and its in bold print.
Then the two people who wrote the article and the editor to agreed to publish it as well need to be prosecuted and if found guilty then they need to join the person who leaked this information.
In this situation all sorts of people begged the NYT to hold on publishing the article. Democrats, Republicans, both in and out of office as well as others "in the know" asked the editor to hold but to no avail. They needed to sell newspapers and broke the law doing so. Believe that there is a newspaper at the prison and hope that they enjoy working on it for the next 20 years or so. At the end of this time they might better understand classified materials and their handling.
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NYT coins itself "All the news fit to print." Well, classified or not, all bets are off when it hits the NYT's computer. It was, after all, news fit to print. If what they printed was secret, someone outside the paper dropped the ball. Tough *****! News is their job, whether it's good news for some or bad news for others.