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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (11511)2/11/2006 3:22:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 541109
 
As I said, I'm not a lawyer. And certainly the Pentagon Papers was a complicated special case, one that you really need to be a lawyer to understand.

However, a moment's thought will tell you that the laws have to be written so that receiving and broadcasting classified information must be illegal, otherwise it would be too easy to get some one to do the dirty work for you so you could get off scott-free. By the same logic, if YOU steal a diamond necklace and sell it to me, and I know you stole it, then I too am committing the crime called 'receiving stolen goods'.

The only defense would be if I had no way to know that the necklace was stolen, or in the other case, the reporter had no way to know the information was classified. In this case, the program that was exposed was so large, and its revelation so embarrassing (not to speak of actual damage done to the national security), that every reporter who wasn't an idiot must have known the information was classified.
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