News alert!
Simply releasing classified information is only a crime if you have a security clearance. You agree to it when you are granted the clearance.
For everyone else, specific harm has to be shown. It's prosecuted under the Espionage Act, instead. And that's a pretty high threshold to meet, especially when all of the information released so far is not surprising.
Wasn’t that a ruling connected to the release of the Pentagon Papers ? As it effected the New York Times? It seems to me that a law could be passed to cover the situation. I wonder why that hasn’t been done? Any ideas why liberals would want to keep this kind of ruling in place? Any reason the MSM would RATHER have the law the way it is - even if it’s hurts the country? Just asking...
Oh - and I don’t believe in prior restraint with the press - but I do believe when a crime’s been committed, the justice department needs to act. Might be time to bring a new case before the SC.