Attorney General Gonzales: Reporters May Be Prosecuted Over NSA Stories
The government has the legal authority to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said yesterday. Asked whether he was open to the possibility that The New York Times should be prosecuted for its disclosures in December concerning a National Security Agency surveillance program, Mr. Gonzales said his department was trying to determine "the appropriate course of action in that particular case."
Gonzales Says Prosecutions of Journalists Are Possible, New York Times, May 22, 2006.
