The Gray Old Benedict Arnold?

J.J. Jackson* | June 28, 2006

Question: If Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had started a newspaper and published the classified information they had acquired in that paper instead of passing it covertly to the Soviets would they still have been guilty of treason?

Tell you what, we will come back to that question a little later to give you a chance to think about it ok?

In the mean time, let?s talk about the New York Times, which has once again raised some eyebrows. Within the past week the Times published information about a (by their own words) ?secret? program known as SWIFT. SWIFT used a network to ?follow the money? of terrorists and their backers around the world. It is also something the Times itself complained that the government should be doing shortly after the attacks of September 11th.

In the past it has been used successfully. However now the future use of this operation is in doubt.

I don?t know what part of ?classified? or ?top secret? some in the entrenched bureaucracy don?t seem to understand. But clearly we have some people whom, for whatever reason, think that they are the ones that chose what information is kept secret and what is disclosed.

The New York Times and other newspapers have been all too eager to take information from these rogue agents within our government and plaster it all over the pages they print. They do this to stir up anger over something they personally don?t like, a desire for revenge over some perceived wrong doing, ego spite, or what have you. Editors around the nation seem to salivate at the thought of getting a scoop on some government program without asking first how disclosing such information would be harmful. But at the same time they are not ashamed to show false outrage over a non-leak of non-classified information (i.e. Valerie Plame) when it suits them…

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