When Journalists Are Called Traitors: From the Spiegel Affair to Snowden : The New Yorker - 0 views
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Gonzalo San Gil, PhD. on 11 Oct 13"A military lawyer had identified forty-one highly classified state secrets revealed in a single article. Senior officials were telling everyone who would listen that the journalists' revelations had made the country less safe and put lives at risk-the reporters were simply traitors. The Russians might be behind it, and who knew what secrets the journalists would hand over if they weren't immediately apprehended. Their publisher was already in Cuba, or maybe just headed there on a plane-anyway, he was a fugitive"