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Politics : Should NY Times Be Prosecuted for Classified Leaks

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To: jlallen who wrote (104)	7/3/2006 3:11:09 PM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (1) of 178

Is that so? I think not. WH Press Briefing 6/23/06: Q In previous cases when intelligence methods have been revealed in the news, the administration has not talked about them. This time you've trotted the Treasury officials to talk about them. Why have you done this? Is the administration concerned -- MR. SNOW: I think it was because -- Q -- that you're not being effective in getting this out to the people and justifying it? MR. SNOW: I think it's important -- the one thing we can say is that Jim Risen and Eric Lichtblau and Bill Keller and others had -- and other reporters who did this, got extensive knowledge and briefing on this. So they knew it. And that's why -- I mean, it's interesting because I think there's a fair amount of balance in the story in that you do have concrete benefits and you do have the kind of abstract harms that were mentioned in there. I think it's important in a case like this, and obviously, we didn't want to print it. But we also wanted to make sure that as the reporters went through and as the editors went through it that they were fully informed so that they could make their own judgment, and that is what they did.

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