[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by island_dude
Joe,
I understand your point, but the fact is that classification is being abused greatly these days to protect decision making and not secrets. If the NYT or other organization started to publish the details of our overhead intelligence capabilities or of weapons capability (beyond the the obvious), I would get very very ticked off. This is a policy memo. I don't know what about it is classified since nothing in it seems to be derived from an intell source.

Cannot disagree with your comments but when and where is it going to stop? What training do the editors at the NYT have in working withclassified material? Doubt that they have any sort of clearance and most likely it has two motives, selling newspapers and getting their cronies elected into office.

How do they know that what they are disclosing is not a very secret program whose disclosure could cost lives and ruin years of work? The problem is that they DO NOT know, they just want to sell newspapers and do not care about the damage they cause.

The problem is that the NYT is not the organization that should be putting ANY classified material out to the public.

They have already published information that has screwed the country one time (the SWIFT program in Europe) and we continue to allow them and other newspapers to publish as they please.

It has to stop somewhere and hope that it does and fast, for the entire country's sake.