Powerline: How much damage did the NY Times do to national security?
James Risen and Eric Lichtblau are the New York Times reporters who disclosed the highly classified NSA eavesdropping program in December 2005. In my view their behavior was blatantly illegal. In all likelikhood it did great damage to the national security of the United States. I wrote about their story and provided relevant links in the Weekly Standard column“Exposure.”
In any event, Risen and Lichtblau are principals in the story. In today’s New York Times, Risen and Lichtblau neverthelesscover the release of the unclassified version of the report of five Inspectors General on the NSA program (referred to in the report as the President’s surveillance program or PSP). The five IGs signing on to the report are attached to the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the CIA, the NSA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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Tags: Eric Lichtblau, James Risen
