[meyer]

I hate the NY Times.

I loathe the NY Times. I don't like their staff. They are the voice of most of what's wrong with the US. They are liberal/socialist shills.

Their actions on this matter are reprehensible.

But what the NY Times has done is perfectly legal. And constitutionally protected. They are afforded the same right to free speech as the rest of us.

The people that need to be dealt with are those that are apparently compromising classified information for political means (and yes, it's purely political). There are moles in the government and they do need to be prosecuted.

[Young Scholar]

I second everything you said (except I do like their crossword puzzle).

[D-fendr]

But what the NY Times has done is perfectly legal. And constitutionally protected. They are afforded the same right to free speech as the rest of us.

And if the NYT found out the president would be completely unprotected next Thursday from noon to midnight? Or they found out you could decimate U.S. soldiers in the Green Zone if you drove a truck through backroad X at dawn? No problems for you?

Free speech? It has limits. You betray your country and help its enemies, then you - and your helpers - are traitors.

the same right to free speech as the rest of us.

Yes. If I published what the NYT published on this I would deserve to be punished for it.