Espionage, hiding behind the almighty American “free press”

Circling the media wagons

Looks like Kim was a spy who made use of a wholly self-interested reporter who could not have cared less about national security interests to alert his Korean bosses of their security problem.

But even Pincus has the usual journo blind spot.

Not even a hint that it might have occurred to him journos who, such as himself, actively seek leaks of classified information, are engaged in an activity intrinsically damaging to national security.

The egregious, self-serving hypocrisy of his position, that if he seeks and gets and publishes damaging information the leak can and should be punished but he, his editors, his publishers, and his media cannot is invisible to him.

Punish the source who told one guy, the reporter.

Not the reporter who, along with his editor and publisher, told the whole world, including the people national security demanded the information be kept from.

That seems to be BooMan’s position, too.

And that’s as far as any pundit or journo has been willing to go.

The others are screaming as though nobody should be punished for such a thing.

God forbid the leaks they live on dry up.

National security?

Not our problem, man.