not to enforce the law. i m sure they ll have their explanations that will satisfy some but i emphasize that bipartisan group of everybody from die san feinstein to mike rogers to peter king and others have all said, this is a serious threat to the country, what snowden and greenwald are doing. eric holder and the justice department and obama administration doesn t agree. his yob is to get information. snowwald and snowden can t be put in the same camp. that s what a journalist does. greenwald didn t release names of c.i.a. agents. that was a mistake by certain media outlets. he gave them information. they released it. he has a role in it. you can t deny that. new york times made a mistake and now the peoples names are out there and i don t get any apology at all from the media that did this, let alone justice for the people at risk now. jon: that is the concerning thing. some of these folks are just trying to do what they can for
not to reveal specific information about names of agents of c.i.a. personnel who could be rendered very vulnerable and lives could be at stake as a result. you have to trust the media to do the right thing. jon: the new york times motto is all the news is fit to print. they printed that and then some. they re one of the papers that released this information, then went back to the website and redacted it. once it s there on the web, it s kind of hard to bring it back, isn t it? right. and i also couldn t find any mention of this a.p. story on the new york times website today so i guess they don t think this is they re too busy with the new book they ve written and they re too busy to worry about we put somebody s life at risk. i m old enough to remember in 1975, another disgruntled intelligence operative released names of a bunch of c.i.a. operatives around the world and one of them was an american who was killed, assassinated by
communist terrorists in greece and athens in 1975 and that led the congress to pass the intelligence identity protections act in 1982 that as far as i know, is still in force but not if it comes to snowden and the mainstream media and all of them. it s the case of mike rogers and dianne feinstein and all of the others who have been saying this is a big deal. edward snowden did not release the names. i m old enough to remember robert novak who gave information from the alleged vice president s office. they would be just as upset about that that puts a c.i.a. person in danger. jon: you said that the media ought to be policing themselves or they ought to be responsible but who is to enforce that? we don t want it s got to be self enforcing. the media needs to do the right you don t want the government clamping down on the media
six intelligent workers. apparently intelligence workers, i should say. according to the a.p., it was then able to track down their home addresses as well as other personal information. and there s more. government secrets also were reportedly exposed by mistake. contributing editor and writing for the american conservative may go sglen, alan colmes is the host of the alan colmes show and author of thank the liberals for saving americans. alan, you ve been a defender of the leaks snowden has let out. anything about this story, does that change it for you? the media has to be very careful not to disclose the names. that s not to say that i don t think edward snowden did the right thing. i think he did. i know that s a controversial state many. the media has a responsibility
to punish individuals. we act against terrorists to propose a continuing threat to the american people. when there are no other governments capable of effectively addressing the threat. and before any strike is taken, there must be near certainty no civilians will be killed or injured. the highest standard we can set. that was the new presidential policy guidance that was issued last may by president obama. we re toll the individual in question is not a household name but has been using his position overseas to inspire attacks. jenna: very interesting story, one we ll watch. thank you. jon: now covering the coverage, the media go all out to report the contents of n.s.a. documents stolen and leaked by edward snowden but sometimes the reports reveal too much. the associated press now finding that various news organizations disclose the names of at least