In many cases, the NY Times has gone out of their way to damage American interests. This is not one of them for the following reasons:
1) The information is available at wikileaks to anyone who takes the time to look
2) Multiple news organizations inside and outside the US were provided this info
The NY Times publishing this info does not further the damage already done by wikileaks.
The people the US should be focusing on:
1) Wikileaks: why is this organization still able to operate when it continually does significant damage to US interests including causing injury/death to those who assist the US???
2) The person who leaked this info.
3) The people responsible for the security of this info who did such a poor job. If it was this easy to compromise, you can be assured that foreign governments had already done so.
Thanks. This is the post I’ve been waiting for.