>PS -- Interesting that you didn't respond to my response after I read the article in question. Are you sure it revealed secret details that could endanger U.S. soldiers? If so, which details were those? Because I sure didn't see any. Calling that article treasonous seems a little hysterical to me, frankly.

Call me a pinko liberal (actually there was a time when people did with some regularity) but I slant more toward your thinking on this after reading the article. Some of it may have been a revelation to Americans but I doubt there was much that was news to the Iranians.

It is very safe to say that in the late 60s and early 70s (or in my terms "back in the day") the US public knew almost nothing of the "Secret War" in Laos. Besides the most secret radar installation in the world directing B52 strikes on North Vietnam we ran an entire indigenous army of Hmong fighting the NVA and the Pathet Lao and dropped more bombs on the place than we did on Germany in WWII - and this on a country with about 12 miles of paved roads. The radar station was sort of secret, but the bombs and Hmong army attracted the notice of the Pathet Lao and the NVA.

Unpublicized and "secret" aren't the same thing.

It is more disturbing sometimes when information about what the Iranians ( or whoever ) are doing as that can in fact compromise sources, but since it is also a great channel for disinformation is it tough reading just which is which.