MIchael Barrone thinks there's a chance the disclosures of the NSA surveillance and the CIA prisons in Europe will be prosecuted.
...the NSA surveillance and the secret prisons were things the government definitely wanted kept secret, and it has argued plausibly that their publication has damaged the interests of the United States. Bill Keller and Leonard Downie, the highly respected top editors of the Times and the Post, have said that they decided publication wouldn't hurt national security. But the law, perhaps unwisely, doesn't give them the final decision on that.
National security decisions were not theirs to make. We have people we elect who should make those decisions, so I'm in favor of letting the editors face trial. I have no problem letting the juries decide whether they were right or wrong.
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