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Politics : Should NY Times Be Prosecuted for Classified Leaks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mao II who wrote (143)	7/5/2006 1:13:36 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 178

Would the Times publication have made a difference? Castro wasn't entirely ignorant of what was up. Had the Times published and the invasion gone ahead with no air cover the outcome would be exactly the same as what we got. This does not excuse Kennedy for his failure as CIC. It also would not have excused the NYT. Had they published, the people involved should have been arrested and tried. Suppose the NYT knew where the D-Day landings were going to hit. Hitler and part of the German military command expected the Pas de Calais area; the actual plan was the Normandy beaches. Hitler ordered German military units, including large armored units, to be held in the Calais area and released for use in other areas only by his personal command. Had those units been available at Normandy, the landings would almost certainly have been defeated. Suppose the NYT published that the landings would be at those Normandy beaches. WOULD YOU STILL SUPPORT THEIR RIGHT TO PUBLISH?????? The Germans also had a nuclear program. The went wrong in their efforts to develop a bomb early. Suppose the NYT had published the correct engineering and the Germans had developed and used the bomb in Europe. WOULD YOU STILL SUPPORT THEIR RIGHT TO PUBLISH??????