Chalking 'Em Up

Stephen J. Kim, a former State Department contractor charged with leaking information from a highly classified report about North Korea to a Fox News reporter in 2009, pleaded guilty on Friday and agreed to serve a 13-month prison sentence.

Mr. Kim became the sixth official to be convicted in a leak-related prosecution by the Obama administration, which has pursued eight such cases to date. Only three leak cases were prosecuted under all previous administrations.

  NYT

Read that last paragraph again.  Criminalizing journalism.  Is that American? 

Let’s recap. What horrible treacherous thing did Mr. Kim reveal?

Mr. Kim’s leak led Fox News to report in June 2009 that “the Central Intelligence Agency has learned, through sources inside North Korea” that North Korea was likely to respond to a United Nations resolution condemning its nuclear and missile tests with even more tests.

And worse, in order to get documents into evidence in this case, the government went after the reporter, James Rosen.

Mr. Kim’s case attracted attention because of the wording of an application for a secret search warrant for the reporter’s emails. The application, which surfaced in May, asserted that the reporter, James Rosen, was himself a criminal — “at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator” in Mr. Kim’s leak.

Criminalizing journalism.  Is that American?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.