You're still under the assumption that illegal is immoral (or that exposing secrets is in itself immoral). If the government were to disclose the hypothetical lists above, unclassified, would it be right to print them everywhere? (And in fact when the government "accidentally" reveals identities no one is really prosecuted... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair see esp. Libby )
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You're still under the assumption that illegal is immoral (or that exposing secrets is in itself immoral). If the government were to disclose the hypothetical lists above, unclassified, would it be right to print them everywhere? (And in fact when the government "accidentally" reveals identities no one is really prosecuted... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair see esp. Libby )