[dutyhonorcountry]

I just don't understand.

1. As I am led to believe, it is a violation of federal law to publish or discuss classified material in the open. Wouldn't the individual(s) who "leaked" this information to the Times be in violation of that law?

2. If so, would the journalists who wrote the article and the Times itself share in the legal responsibility for knowingly publishing information from a classified source?

[optimistically_conservative]

I take it you've never heard of the Pentagon Papers?