The two faces of security…

In last Thursday’s op-ed page, the NY Times laments the length of the sentence handed out to Pfc. Bradley Manning. Perhaps this was in defense of their own release of some of the many thousands of classified documents this confused person handed over to Julian Assange. In any case, their argument was spurious because they based it simply on the observation that the U.S. government over-classifies. They share the myopic view of many people who hold up Manning as a hero for being a whistle-blow...