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Originally Posted by pelathais
The law applies to anyone. The NY Times probably wouldn't be criminally responsible in this - that charge would fall upon their source within Paneta's CIA and probably the Director himself as well since the deliberate release of such info would have required the sign off of someone pretty high up.
The NY Times would be morally culpable for any harm that would befall the American Force Protection team.
When the CIA's attempted coup to overthrow the Vice President failed and Valeria Plame, a low level political appointee, was "outed" you and the "liberals" all wanted heads. Now we see a genuine threat to actual Intelligence ops and you don't see a problem? Shame on you.
My son is in the military and is training for things that I can not and would not post. (It's not really that big a deal, but it is "Top Secret"). If someone were to endanger his life I would not sleep until they were standing in an orange jump suit cuffed in front of a judge.
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I'm not against prosecuting anyone responsible for outing, I just didn't think that a newspaper would be or could be held responsible.
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