On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:10:21 -0400, gfretwell wrote:

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:27:34 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:18:04 -0400, John H. wrote:


Journalists who divulge classified information should be jailed.

On what charge? The First Amendment is very clear about freedom of the
press. Funny, in the entire Constitution I can't find anything in it
about "classified" information. There's a reason for that.

If you truly believe journalists should be jailed for publishing
classified information, you really should consider a more appropriate
country for your ideological bent. China, perhaps?

Or UK? The commie *******s have an official secrets act. ;-)

BTW before the Pentagon Papers case you could go to jail here for
publishing secrets. Without that law we probably would have lost WWII,
we really haven't won a war since. Coincidence? maybe.

Leaking classified information is illegal. Publishing classified
information hasn't been.

http://www.acslaw.org/node/11305