On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:43:20 -0400, John H.
wrote:

Yes, I think journalists who divulge classified information should be
jailed. I should have said 'properly classified'. Information which,
if in the wrong hands, can be detrimental to our national security
should not be published just because it makes a 'good story'.

During WWII the Japanese were not setting the depth charges nearly
deep enough. A congressman told that Top Secret info to the press, and
whores that they are, the newspapers in Hawaii published it. Admiral
Lockwood estimated that business cost the US Navy ten submarines.

Casady