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“ 18 United States Code section 794, subsection (b) prohibits anyone "in time of war, with intent that the same shall be communicated to the enemy [from publishing] any information with respect to the movement, numbers, or disposition of any of the Armed Forces ... of the United States... or supposed plans or conduct of any ... military operations ... or any other information relating to the public defense, which might be useful to the enemy ... [this crime is punishable] by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life." ”
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You got to give Tony Blankley credit; many a conservative has whined and screamed about liberals in the media, but few have actually advocated executing them! Of course, it makes sense that Seymour Hersh especially irks our conservative friends; for decades his intrepid reporting has continued to force us to look at some of the dark consequences of US policies. Besides, it’s not like there are any recent cases of prominent conservative journalists harming national security by, say, revealing an active duty CIA agent’s name.
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Seymour Hersh is a traitor Blankley quotes a US statue that prohibits anyone "with ... reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates ... to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly, any information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life.” |
No, no, Seymour Hersh isn’t a traitor, merely a reporter. Using his sources throughout the government Hersh has again written an expose about some of shadowy parts of US policy. While the article is revelatory, it is also vague; it’s not as if Hersh published a map of Iran with arrows pointing to US Special Forces troops. Even National Review writer Michael Ledeen says that he doesn’t “think we need worry too much about Hersh's revealing the darkest secrets of American intelligence.” |
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fundamentally undercut US national security “I was shocked when I read Mr. Hersh's article. Note the tenses he uses to describe American military action: "The American commando task force ... is now working," "has been conducting secret reconnaissance." In other words, Mr. Hersh is revealing to all the world, including the Iranian government, that our commandos are currently behind enemy lines in Iran on a dangerous and vital military assignment.” |
One wonders if this charge doesn’t derive from a sense of pure American superiority. Do we really think the Iranians are dumb enough to have assumed nothing was going on and need The New Yorker to tell them that US forces have been infiltrating Iran. Blankley charges that Hersh has given away our forces position by saying that US forces have been infiltrating through Afghanistan. Really? You don’t think they could guess that? Or that the US military might even, say, plant misleading information to throw off and opponent? One certainly hopes he has more respect for our armed force’s intelligence. |
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Code section 794 has been used to prosecute a journalist before
for similar acts “In the fairly recent past, at least one journalist writing for Jane's Publications has been successfully prosecuted under the statute, freedom of speech and the press not being a defense to espionage.” |
Sorry Tony, you got your facts screwed up. As Media Matters reported Simon L. Morison, an editor of Jane’s Defense Weekly who was charged under the Espionage Act was also an analyst for the Office of Naval Intelligence and it was under that rubric he was prosecuted. |
You got to give Tony Blankley credit; many a conservative has whined and screamed about liberals in the media, but few have actually advocated executing them! Of course, it makes sense that Seymour Hersh especially irks our conservative friends; for decades his intrepid reporting has continued to force us to look at some of the dark consequences of US policies. Besides, it’s not like there are any recent cases of prominent conservative journalists harming national security by, say, revealing an active duty CIA agent’s name.
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