New York Times executive editor Bill Keller announced, at one of the paper's regular staff talk-backs, plans for another wave of job cuts, including, according to three sources, the elimination of 100 newsroom positions. That's about 7 percent of the newsroom.And this, from the Weekly Standard, Gabriel Schoenfeld:
On January 24, a federal grand jury in Alexandria issued a subpoena to James Risen of the New York Times, seeking information about who in the U.S. government provided him with classified information that he published in his book, State of War. That book appeared in January 2006, more than two years ago. The CIA may have a hard time keeping secrets, but the Justice Department, we are learning now that this long-running leak inquest has come to light, seems to be very good at it. [snip]The significance of all this is hard to miss. Codebreaking and the interception of electronic transmissions are the crown jewels of American intelligence and guarded as such. Communications intelligence is one of three narrow categories of secrets--along with the identities of intelligence agents and the design of nuclear weapons--protected by a special statute all its own. State of War punctured this blanket of secrecy. And it did so in a way that undoubtedly caused the Iranians, along with other American adversaries, to improve their codes and protect their communications far more carefully. Thus, at a moment when U.S. intelligence was tasked with gaining information about Iranian nuclear weapons--one of our highest national priorities--out came revelations that closed a key American window into the workings of the Iranian government.
Take a bow, NY Times--bow your head in shame. Bleeding red ink, bleeding secrets that were not yours to tell. Betrayal by the Gray Lady--why are we Americans not surprised.
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