A. The GOP leaders who have claimed that the New York Times has broken the law are totally full of sh!t.
B. The Bush administration knows damn well that the Times has broken the law but has simply refused to uphold the law.
I'm just about 100% certain that (A) is the correct answer here -- and the real turning point for me came last weekend when Rep. Peter King started showing up all over the media to voice his complaints over the "crimes" committed by the New York Times. If there was any truth to this accusation, the GOP never would have had such a dopey, mediocre spokesman to make the point on its behalf.
King's doing that on his own. The criminal statutes would be hard to prosecute, so no GOP leaders are going to be throwing the word "crime" around.
There will be investigations aplenty into the leaking which is unambiguously a crime. Reporters will have to choose between unmasking their sources or doing time.
Nope. There isn't a shred of doubt not only that the Times has broken the law, and not just one of them, but at least two major felony statutes. The violations are egregious and willful. They would be straighforward of proof.
This is a clear case of Politics trumping Duty.
"The GOP leaders who have claimed that the New York Times has broken the law are totally full of sh!t."
Well there are constitutional lawyers who disagree with you.
Are you a constitutional lawyer?
See Mark Levin's article "Dealing with the Papers"
http://marklevinfan.com/?p=1222#more-1222
Excerpt:
"Keller and his co-conspirators should be pursued for their unprecedented betrayals, which have endangered the safety of the American people, and forced to defend themselves as any other common defendant. They are at least as disloyal to the nation and the rule of law in aiding and abetting the enemy as those in the government who are leaking to them."
Why don't you call his show and straighten him out?