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• More on Marty, the NSA, and the Times

  Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 12:30 PM By Eric Posner
  
  So it just comes down to different judgments about the proper weighing of the costs and benefits of publication. Marty thinks that the legal arguments are bad (high benefit from publication) and suspects that the secrecy of the NSA program was not important Read More...
  Filed under: national security

• NYT? What's Bush's Excuse for Keeping Law Violations Secret?

  Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:24 PM By Dawn Johnsen
  
  Eric writes , "The question was whether The Times went about making its decision [to reveal the Bush administration's violations of FISA] in a responsible way." Marty and David 's responses (citing Eric Lichtblau's column ) have devastated any suggestion Read More...
  Filed under: national security, nyt, fisa

• Reply to David Regarding The Times and the NSA Program

  Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:35 PM By Eric Posner
  
  David , there was nothing "abstract" about what The Times was doing. Are you saying that any possible harm to national security was negligible, or irrelevant? I did not argue that The Times should not have disclosed the existence of the program, a question Read More...
  Filed under: national security

• The Reporter as Dramatic Hero: Some Skepticism

  Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:21 PM By Eric Posner
  
  Elsewhere on Slate, Eric Lichtblau describes the " inside drama " behind The Times' wiretapping story, a drama in which our hero confronts the arrayed forces of the U.S. government, momentarily stumbles, picks himself up, brings the Bush administration Read More...
  Filed under: national security

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