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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales raised the possibility yesterday that New York Times journalists could be prosecuted for publishing classified information based on the outcome of the criminal investigation underway into leaks to the Times of data about the National Security Agency's surveillance of terrorist-related calls between the United States and abroad.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052100348.html
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20060519.htmlLately, the Bush Administration has been talking of using the Espionage Act of 1917 to prosecute the New York Times and the Washington Post. Yet these veteran newspapers' "crimes" consist merely of publishing Pulitzer-Prize-winning articles on the CIA's secret prisons, and the NSA's secret surveillance programs.
Should the Times and The Washington post be prosecuted for for their revelations to the public that Cia secret prisons and NSA domestic spying exist.
No these are issues involving the freedom of the press.
Yes, they should be prosecuted by the Attorney general under a 1917 law.
Only the government officials who leaked the information to the press should be prosecuted.
I only suggest a few options. This probably should be a poll.
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