[RWR8189]

Not a website I'm familiar with, but it was linked on RealClearPolitics, and they're a pretty good site.

[A CA Guy]

Reporters have the right to say whatever for the most part.

The issue here is whether the press can use free speech to spread illegal leaks and assist in what could be considered espionage against the United States?

Common sense would seem to say no.

Let's say the press in WW2 heard a disgruntled lefty leak, and decided to tell Japan through the newspapers that we found one of those typewriters and that we could now read all their correspondence.
Is the press free to sabotage the defense of our country and remove an advantage we would have had longer over an enemy they don't know about? Common sense says no.

[pcottraux]

I hope so.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"suggested that the espionage laws in question had been written to apply to government officials who leaked classified information and not to journalists and newspapers that might have published it."

That reminds me of what the former Gov of Louisiana (Presently Incarcerated) said about bribery.

"It was illegal for them to bribe me. It wasn't illegal for me to accept the money though."- Edwin Edwards

Hey Pinchy.... don't drop the soap!!!!

[BallyBill]

I didn't know you could indict a newspaper. I'd rather some of their employees be indicted.

[Earthdweller]

Woohoo..would that ever make my day.

The slimes are a disgrace.

[Hardastarboard]

Sometimes I think Joe McCarthy was right. He was just right too soon.

[LaLaLand Conservative]

I am certainly not a fan of the New York Times, and I don't think newspapers should be publishing classified information that might effect national security. That having been said however, it is ironic Gonzales seems to be considering prosecution in this case to "protect our security" while the administration has declined to enforce the law against the hiring of illegal aliens and ignored the security risks inherent in our porous borders and ports every since 9/11. An administration that selectively enforces the law only when it is convenient and that only worries about some security risks while ignoring other obvious ones loses credibility even with its base.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"Is The New York Times about to be indicted?"

Mouth is watering like a Pavlovian dog.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

A possible death sentence for the NY Times? What a pleasant thought to start the day.

[browardchad]

He reports that the FBI has not yet interviewed anyone from The New York Times in connection with the leaks that led to its story on the NSA's communications intercepts.

It doesn't necessarily follow that they won't be investigated. After her attorney's initial bluster, we haven't heard much from Mary McCarthy lately.

As far as the (false) sanctity of the press, I'd say Fitzgerald has lowered the bar in throwing Judy Miller in jail for a few months. Perhaps reporters won't be prosecuted, but their lives may be, shall we say, severely inconvenienced.

[mewzilla]

Pinch is going to be pinched?

Goody.

[thoughtomator]

We have an obligation to enforce those laws," he said. "We have an obligation to ensure that our national security is protected."

He should pass that attitude over to the immigration section!

[MinuteGal]

"Times, Times is such a fleeting, insubstantial thing"

(William Shakespeare, 1602)

[Candor7]

Yet one wonders if the Bush Administration would really dare to take the unprecedented step of prosecuting an institution like The New York Times.

You bet your sweet a$$ he would, and about time too, you traitorous scumbags!

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

Hot Air, huh? Let's hope that Gonzalez nails the sorry NYT, to the wall...

[usurper]

National Security information should be treated like child porn.

Unauthorized possession, distribution, publication, duplication, transfer, reproduction, acceptance, giving, selling or divulging should be unlawful.

The Times needs to be hammered. They would have published the Manhattan design plans in WW-II if they had this bunch of editors. They are putting the American people in danger through their irresponsible quest for ratings, profit, personal agendas and awards.

This must stop now before they commit even greater damage to the nation and people.

These people are just as dangerous as AQ.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Ping

Pinz

[Enchante]

Call me when the headlines are "Is Pinch Sulzberger About to Be Sentence to Life in Prison?" and I'll be a lot more interested....... :^)

[shield]

Interesting...