Good grief..Arlen Specter is a moron! He sounds always sounds like he has marbles in his mouth.
Prior restraint says that the government cannot act before the act to stop the press. It assumes that if the Press indeed is in violation of the law, the damage must be done first before something can be done. This allows the Press the choice of conscience and to take the risk of legal sanctions if indeed they choose to unjustifiably abuse the public trust.
The Court insisted that the damage must be done before the state can act. Well now it is done. So it only follows that prosecutions should follow. Its silly to argue that because the Country is to have now ability to prevent Press organizations from compromising National Security, that once they have that the rule that prevented them from preventing the damage, then implies that we cannot hold these criminals to account.
Yeah, he got the idea from Cicero but Spincter is so dumb, he didn't know you have to actually supposed to remove them when you speak in public.