[tsmith130]

Here's hoping is right!

[Paloma_55]

"Conservatives"????

How about "Federal Prosecutors"!?!?

[darkwing104]

"We were not convinced then, and have not been convinced since, that our reporting compromised national security."

I'll remember that during the next act of terrorism on U.S. soil.

[Jim Noble]

We were not convinced then, and have not been convinced since, that our reporting compromised national security.

I was not convinced then, and I'm not convinced now, that robbing the bank because I needed the money was wrong.

[mhuye]

Be carefull, those pink things in the sky are really pigs, and yes, they are flying today. Not only do thay admit it, but once again in the wonderful model of Mary Mapes, they still don't think that it effected National Security...THANK GOD for the fact that THEY DECIDED what is best for the other 300 million Americans...Sick, disgusting, immoral and seditionists...

[b4its2late]

They should be out of business for it. Treason.

[W04Man]

Yes, and they may have to pursue some congressmen or senators too!

[Wasanother]

Well that's comforting, Bill Keller, newspaper idiot with no idea of national security, says they didn't jeopardize national security. sarc

[xcamel]

... and there arose a great chorus of moonbats, chanting "Chill !, Chill !", and the great disturbance in the force was ignored with a yawn, as the usual suspects, bawling and squalling, were dragged away to their impending fate...

[last line of the book "Press Wars: Revenge of the truth"]

[muawiyah]

Gee whiz, guys, I'm convinced that the New York Times damaged our national interest and endangered our people and our military in the field.

Wonder if any of these putzes would be willing to duke it out in Central Park early some Sunday morning?

Bet not ~ the whole lot of them are cowards and traitors.

[kittymyrib]

Charge, try and convict Pinch and his cohorts. Publishing our intelligence secrets certainly is more harmful than anything Scooter Libby did. They all need to do jail time and the NYT needs to be fined out of existence for breeching national security for the rest of the nation during wartime.

[hershey]

What does it take to get through to these dunderheads? Wild-eyed Muslims renting a van, filling it with fertilizer, etc., and parking it in the lobby of the NYTimes?

[TADSLOS]

"We were not convinced then, and have not been convinced since, that our reporting compromised national security."

Maybe a 30 year tour of this place will convince him:

[bkepley]

Here's hoping the adminstration finds the intestinal fortitude to seek to convince a jury of Keller's peers.

I'm not worried at all about the administration's intestinal fortitude but I doubt the courts would hold up a conviction.

[Wasanother]

Here's some free advise for Risen, If you drop the soap just let it go and if some burley man says,"boy you sure got a purdy mouth", ask him what color lipstick does he prefer.

[TalBlack]

"Here's hoping the administration finds the intestinal fortitude to seek to convince a jury of Keller's peers."

In 'no balls' America that's just not happening.

This neutered condition extends as well to journalists who print what they please and are explicitly proud of it until they have something to print that may anger someone who they believe may blow their lying liberal heads off--then they become "prudent".

No balls and scumbag cowards to boot.

[Fruitbat]

Yeah, no kidding.

An upcoming article in Commentary magazine suggests that the newspaper may be prosecuted for violations of the Espionage Act...

I'll believe that when I see it.

[carlr]

"We were not convinced then, and have not been convinced since, that our reporting compromised believed that this information would be extremely damaging to the Bush administration which is far more important than national security."

Just reporting the real story.

[JoeSixPack1]

So they weighed their options and surely had the countries best interest in mind when they decided this little tidbit of information was an unnecessary national security secret.

Who knew the NY Slimes were top notch national security experts?

(/sarc)

[ops33]

Its irrelevant whether you think your actions may or may not compromise national security. That's not the legal standard. The NY Times has no legal right to publish classified information. Period. It doesn't matter what you think of the war, or even if there is a war. They can't compromise classified information.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

"We were not convinced then, and have not been convinced since, that our reporting compromised national security."

These Ivy League elites who run the major media learned many things in college, among them:

1) Ethics are circumstancial and relative

2) The Press has little to fear from the government, due to endless legal complications and the perennial 'Freedom of the Press' defense. Did Ellesberg do time for releasing the Pentagon Papers?