Those rotten bastards, posting info anybody with the same legal status as a reporter (ie - US citizen) could have gotten, publicly.
Microsoft and countless other software companies have proven that security by obscurity works just great. Why not extend that to American national security? All it would take would be scuttling the First Amendment; a small price to pay, for true safety.
Here's American Gladiator. Here's fifty channels of it. Go back to bed, America. - Bill Hicks
What exactly does this have to do with a civilian news organization publishing sensitive information it receives?
Since the information is kinda supposed to NOT be known to the international community, it would be nice for the media to not report sensitive information.
The left had a fucking cow when Valerie Plame was "outed" and how that is was treasonous, compromised national security, and so forth. But when the NY Times reports about secret programs to track down terrorist activity, it's a "right to know" issue? When the Washington Post publishes about secret prisons, it's a "right to know" issue. Gotta love the double standard.
The difference in the role of the individual. As a worker in the CIA the government had made clear to Plame she was to maintain a secret and her identity was kept from the public as part of her job. Which she did. It was people within the government who had no right according to their own rules to share that information who did in fact do so. If they had gone through the procedure of declassifying the information first then it was released they'd be complying with the rules and there would be no issue. But to reveal classified information for political reasons is both irresponsible and illegal
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The double standard is called "security clearance". Valerie Plume was outed by somebody with it. The reporters at the New York Times and the Washington Post lack it.
None of which addresses my central point: if reporters could find out, so could terrorists. Blaming those who noticed the problem, instead of those who caused it, is massive foolishness.
Microsoft and countless other software companies have proven that security by obscurity works just great. Why not extend that to American national security? All it would take would be scuttling the First Amendment; a small price to pay, for true safety.
Here's American Gladiator. Here's fifty channels of it. Go back to bed, America. - Bill Hicks
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Since the information is kinda supposed to NOT be known to the international community, it would be nice for the media to not report sensitive information.
The left had a fucking cow when Valerie Plame was "outed" and how that is was treasonous, compromised national security, and so forth. But when the NY Times reports about secret programs to track down terrorist activity, it's a "right to know" issue? When the Washington Post publishes about secret prisons, it's a "right to know" issue. Gotta love the double standard.
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None of which addresses my central point: if reporters could find out, so could terrorists. Blaming those who noticed the problem, instead of those who caused it, is massive foolishness.
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