How media leaks affect war on terror - Yahoo! News:
"WASHINGTON AND BOSTON - The news media's recent disclosures of classified intelligence do 'great harm' to US security, the Bush administration maintains.
The assertion is difficult to dispute, since nobody outside America's spy agencies knows for sure whether the leaks have caused terrorists to cover their tracks. But analysts and former intelligence officials suggest that the real harm of untimely disclosures lies elsewhere.
'The damage from this, if there is damage, is in the question of whether foreign governments and sources can trust the US to protect sensitive information,' says Larry Johnson, a security consultant who worked for the CIA and the State Department's Office of Counter Terrorism.
While any information terrorists get about how the US is seeking them is to their advantage, any such gains from the leaks of the past six months may only be slight, Mr. Johnson and other experts say."
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