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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled against The New York Times on Monday, refusing to block the government from reviewing the phone records of two Times reporters in a leak investigation of a terrorism-funding probe.The one-sentence order came in a First Amendment battle that involves stories written in 2001 by Times reporters Judith Miller and Philip Shenon revealing the government’s plans to freeze the assets of two Islamic charities, the Holy Land Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation.
Shenon and Miller called the two organizations for comment after being told by confidential sources of the government’s plans.
I suppose this means that the government will finally learn the identity of the confidential sources, and I would hope that information is made public. Given that the Times has shown no restraint in publishing information that aids the enemy in the War on Terror, you might think that they’ve got it coming. While I’m no fan of the Times, it is important to consider what effect this will have on the free press in the long run.
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I want what I have always wanted, to know who is leaking, and for them to be prosecuted.
I don’t understand how this could ever harm a free press, as long as the press understands it doesn’t have free rein to divulge information that it isn’t authorized to have in the first place.
If reporters are required by law, to divulge their informants, then they should do so or face the consequences. Should that cause informants or whistleblowers to think twice about turning over classified info to a reporter, then that’s fine with me.
In the recent past, what the NYSlimes has done, in what seems a blatant attempt to cause harm to the current administration, and the electoral success of the GOP, has harmed the governments ability to find and stop terrorist. To me that’s treason, and those who have provided the Slimes with the intel should be dealt with as harshly as the law allows.
This material that the Times published hampered the war on terror and may have put lives in danger. The people leaking these things should be identified and and prosecuted.