Actually- once the Times let the administration know in no uncertain terms it was going to publish the story- the admin gave them people to talk to so they would publish facts rather than supposition.
The NYT's has no bottom level..it simply goes deeper down, always able to find a new and more destructive level. SOB's.
That's a technique.
I'd have thrown them in prison for endangering the lives of Americans and selling out their country in order to win a Pulitzer prize, but whatever.