>I am sick and tired of this guy exposing government secret ops are designed to protect our interests.
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>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/29/us.iran/index.html
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>I know, freedom of the press. But there has to be some editorial discretion as to what is published. Can you imagine if newspapers had documented the details of Roosevelt or Churchill's Atlantic voyages? The U-Boats would have had a field day.
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>I think the NYT has to be called to the mat on their blatant and dangerous partisanship. If the White House had guts, they would yank the White House credientials of every single NY Times reporter and cite this and earlier trangressions as the reason. Thanks, Seymour and the NYT editors. Covert folks with a lot more patriotism and discretion than you will now be killed and the mission possibly degraded. Thanks a lot.
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>One of the many reasons I despise holier-than-thou partisans.

Please help me out here. How did the New York Times get included in your diatribe?

For those unfamiliar with Seymour Hersh, he is an investigative reporter who writes for The New Yorker, a weekly magazine. Among his achievements are winning a Pulitzer Prize and being the first to expose the abuses at Abu Ghraib.

I agree with you that not everything journalists learn should be published. So do the editors and publishers of reputable media. Not sure this story fits in the category of national secrets. Like it or not, this administration's history of lying, obfuscation, and stonewalling is probably a factor in the news media opting to report more of what they do rather than less. Someone needs to tell us the truth.