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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins View Post
They published what they knew to be classified information. I believe that is a crime. The publishers and every reported and editor who were involved need to be prosecuted to fullest extent of the law. If they refuse to reveal their sources, they should be held in contempt, in prison, until such time as they do.

Time to take the gloves off with regard to these leakers and their customers in the press. It's much like the hooker/John relationship, wherein law enforcement has found greater success in going after the consumer rather than the provider. In this case, the staff at the Times who developed and signed off on this story are the "Johns", the customers, buying the goods. We need to drop the hammer on them, and hard.
This is stupid. You assume that the press knows the information to be classified, when we have, at the same time, a POTUS who blabs classified information all the time. The press held back on publishing the classified information that POTUS blabbed in that case. Who knows what the NYT knew or didn't know about classification level and/or the sensitivity to the UK investigation into this terror attack. Not a bunch of PPOT armchair QBs.

Also, WTF is this fixation on only going after the press, as you so eloquently posted above when something is leaked. What about the leakers? These are people in the administration running their mouths, just like POTUS. Go after them before shredding the 1st amendment. Or is the 2nd all you know or care about? GMAFB.
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