[nina0113]

As I said, I'm not sure how prosecuting a corporate entity would work, but the NYT published the evidence of their lawbreaking themselves. Obviously there's more to the case than just dumping the paper on the bench, like the letters to Santa in Miracle on 34th Street! But to claim that the inadvertent disclosure of the Chicago Tribune during WWII was equivalent to the NYT deliberate disclosure is incorrect.

I've read your posts with respect in the past, so I'm sure it was an oversight, but the Justice Department would actually be the prosecution, not the defense.

[LS]

It wasn't inadvertent in 1942. This was the same anti-FDR paper that, before the war, published a big "Secret War Plan" story trying to gin up opposition to FDR's preparations (which we desperately needed) in case we were attacked.