Glenn Reynolds argues that telling the terrorists about intelligence programs is like profiting from dumping toxic waste in the river.
I disagree.
I think it's like selling the Soviets the plans for the hydrogen bomb.
These newspapers don't just go after companies who commit fraud or who poison our kids for a fast buck. They're the ones who've been chanting Halliburton-Halliburton-Halliburton as the reason why Dick Cheney took us to war. They're the ones who've screamed from the rooftops about $(fill in alarmist and armageddon-like number here) Air Force toilet seats and hammers. They're the ones who suggest that if we hadn't gone to war in Iraq, we wouldn't have brush fires out west from SunTeXXonMobil-induced climate change.
But faced with a chance to rescue his buggy-whip business model for another week, Pinch Sulzberger will gladly do more damage to his city's safety than all the Homeland Security Budget formulas laid end-to-end.
Maybe Eason Jordan really has convinced Bill Keller than George Bush is trying to kill him.