I’ve wondered this, too. Can’t the editor or owners or someone at the NY Times be charged with espionage?
The act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation. Espionage is a violation of 18 United States Code 792-798 and Article 106, Uniform Code ofMilitary Justice. See also counterintelligence.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
Don’t like this, don’t like this at all. This crud is all too high for a single person to snag files. Has to be someone very high up.