SCOTUS To NY Times – Leaks NOT Protected Speech

J.J. Jackson* | November 29, 2006

The New York Times has become known lately as the newspaper to go to if you want to leak classified information. Now it may have to face the music.

Justices reject NY Times in leak case

Los Angeles Times
By David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer. WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court refused Monday to shield the New York Times and two of its reporters from a prosecutor’s probe into who leaked word of planned raids on two Muslim charities five years ago.

Freedom of the press is important. The New York Times has the right to publish anything it wants. But it cannot use that as a shield to defend against divulging top secret information which poses no immediate threat to the rights of citizens and allows people under legitimate investigation to cover their tracks. It is just like a person who practices a religion which requires ritual human sacrifice cannot use “freedom of religion” as a shield to defend them against murder and taking the life of another human being.

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