USA: Espionage: Power Line blog makes legal case re New York Time's treasonous espionage endangering all Americans

Yes, accepting such a leak, and then publishing it, is espionage in my vocabulary; it is not the "freedom of speech" protected in the US Constitution.

Some hefty legal research has been undertaken and now digitally published on Power Line blog. But I've filched the main juridic text that PL offers in full, and here it is [18 U.S.C. § 798]:

Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information—
(1) concerning the nature, preparation, or use of any code, cipher, or cryptographic system of the United States or any foreign government; or
(2) concerning the design, construction, use, maintenance, or repair of any device, apparatus, or appliance used or prepared or planned for use by the United States or any foreign government for cryptographic or communication intelligence purposes; or
(3) concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government; or
(4) obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government, knowing the same to have been obtained by such processes—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

The case against the New York Times continues to mount, not only for extremely immoral journalism, but starkly illegal as well.

Thank God the US President quietly had his National Security Agency monitor al-Quaeda telephone calls to persons in the US. Carefully monitored to protect the population aganst possible further al-Quaeda attacks. Privacy, shmivacy! Indeed, there is no actual guarantee of privacy in the text of the US Constitution, and the idea has been built up by a long series of activist interpretations by Supreme Courts; but that set of quite saw-able limbs, cannot be asserted to be sufficient to successfully cover for the obsessed honchos at the NYT in this horrendous case that betrays us all.

Hat Tip to The Truth Laid Bare's Top Posts page for putting us all on alert to this development emanating from Power Line. - Politicarp