It is more than slightly ironic that those who recently have had and currently have their knickers in a bunch over a blogger's dissemination of classified tactical military secrets applauded, took satisfaction over, or at least were silent when, during the Bush administration's tenure, The New York Times published far more significant strategic secrets.
The Times made public details of how the U.S. was tracking the flow of funds by and for terrorists. As a result of that publication, the means by which terrorism was and is being financed changed and presumably became more difficult, if not impossible for those responsible for the nation's security to follow on a timely basis.
Had we the gumption of the proper nation we once were, we would not have had the more recent leaks. We would have brought and prosecuted charges of treason against everyone involved in the earlier leaks and imposed appropriate penalties against those convicted of that heinous crime. Does anyone believe there still would be leaks had the Times' publisher and editor been hanged for publishing the earlier ones despite pleas from the government to refrain from doing so?
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