The Price of Leaks

This oped is by Peter Brookes:

...terrorists will change how they move the money used to shed more innocent blood -- maybe even here in the United States -- because of the information exposed in Friday's New York Times.
Leaks also make foreign partners reluctant to share. Why would a foreign intelligence service dole out info gained from an operation that, if exposed, would put their other operations, personnel and agents at risk -- or prove embarrassing? ...Moreover, what foreign agent would want to work for U.S. intelligence if it means your cloak and dagger work might end up on the front page of an American newspaper, leading possibly to prison or a swift, short swing on the gallows? Just think of the gruesome consequences in Iraq . . .

Tell that to liberals, who still think our withdrawal from Vietnam was a great victory. But what can we do?

Outrage isn't enough. The government needs to do more. Congress should better define "leaking" in law, while the executive branch should more vigorously hunt down leakers (as ex-CIA Director Porter Goss did) and prosecute them.

As I once mentioned about solving illegal immigration "plug the dike and then start bailing water". In this case the dike is the New York Times.