Should private citizens and reporters who have unauthorized possession of classified information be allowed to publish it?
Classified information, information that has been deemed dangerous to release, is never supposed to be leaked. This is information that could place the lives of Americans, be they soldiers, CIA operatives, civilian contractors, or even reporters, at serious and potentially life threatening risk. This is not simply information that the President, the Department of Defense, or Congress do not want people to know. It may contain many different types of information; troop movements and locations, enemy personnel numbers and locations, mission plans, tactical situational reports from the field, satellite imagery, and more. This information is vital to the successful completion of our national agenda. It would not only be detrimental to people in the field, but it would have disastrous effects for those at home as well.
