Here's the New York Times story on the House condemning the paper for revealing our secret terrorist tracking program, which Herseth thinks is okay. Excerpt:
The House of Representatives on Thursday condemned the recent disclosure of a classified program to track financial transactions and called on the media to cooperate in keeping such efforts secret.
Lawmakers expressed their sentiment through a resolution that was approved on a largely party-line 227-to-183 vote after days of harsh criticism by the Bush administration and Congressional Republicans aimed at The New York Times and other newspapers for publishing details of the program, which the government said was limited to following possible terrorist financial trails.
The vote followed a bitter debate in which Republicans said news accounts had jeopardized the effort, and Democrats accused Republicans of trying to intimidate the press.
IBD also weighs in on the Times' report with an article entitled "All The U.S. Secrets Fit To Print."
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