As the article points out, freedom of the press, like the analogous attorney-client privilege, does not cover complicity in a crime, especially a major felony.
A lawyer is not obliged to rat on a client who proposes to commit a crime, I don’t believe, but he could be jailed if he agrees to participate in it.
Dana Priest, like several other reporters, has knowingly and willingly participated in outright crimes, as an accomplice or possibly as the instigator. Freedom of the press does not cover such criminal activities.
Yes, the worst criminals are the scum in the CIA, FBI, State Department, and congress who leak these sensitive classified documents and violate their oaths of office. But the reporters are complicit. They should be prosecuted and jailed until they reveal their sources at the very least.
The Justice Department understands this. But, regretably, it does nothing.
Good analysis. I often wonder why the Justice Department is so curiously uninterested in pursuing the sources of intelligence leaks, even those clearly detrimental to American national interests. One would imagine that a sting operation of significant proportions would not significantly tax the resources or imagination of those whose profession it is to catch bad guys.
.....But, regretably, it does nothing....
Au contraire mi amigo (a little Frogmex there)
This week an investigation began into a leaker from I believe the Department of justice, a clinton hold over who might be the leaker of FISA stuff.