This AP leak story pits the argument concerning the public’s right to know against the govt's

[busterbrown]

ability to protect the country’s security....

This is an argument or discussion will be around long after anyone who is reading this will be on this planet..

If a reporter is leaking stories which threatened your families’ physical safety, would you have a difficult time with the govt. going after the source in a less than legal manner....
I don’t have the correct answer...But if this situation should become real...I think people would not be so definitive with their answer...

Bush administration was covered with this stuff.. Where was the republican outrage then..

[elleng]

1. Right. Rachel addressing these matters.

[napi21]

2. On Last Wrod a guest said the gov't HAD to check the phone numbers

because the "leak" involved outing the name of a CIA double agent who had infiltrated AlQaida. If that's true, AP is the guilty one in this case.

[busterbrown]

3. Exactly!!!