[Lancey Howard]

Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. said on the newspaper's website: ''We don't know the details of why [the CIA employee] was fired, so I can't comment on that. But as a general principle, obviously I am opposed to criminalizing the dissemination of government information to the press."

There should be no national security secrets, according to this scumbag Downie.

[weegee]

Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. said on the newspaper's website: ''We don't know the details of why [the CIA employee] was fired, so I can't comment on that. But as a general principle, obviously I am opposed to criminalizing the dissemination of government information to the press."

So this editor came out in defense of the Bush administration in the Plamegate "scandal"? Can anyone find a column or quote where this editor may have made such a comment for or against the Bush administration declassifying information?

[t2buckeye]

"...obviously I am opposed to criminalizing the dissemination of government information to the press."

Unless of course it's that Nasty Libby or Cheney...OR even the President when he "declassified" material to counteract the lies of Joe Wilson

[johnny7]

Boston Globe rump-ranger.