This should be interesting. This Thursday on September 7th a forum on National Security and the Press will be held:

“Start: Thursday, September 7, 2006 11:00 AM

End: Thursday, September 7, 2006 12:30 PM

Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Directions to AEI

Increasingly in the past year, the news media have published classified information that exposed sensitive national security programs. In light of these revelations, concerns have been raised over the extent to which the publication of classified material affects American national security.

Is the First Amendment an absolute right, or are there circumstances in which our freedoms must be limited? Does freedom of the press constitute a license to publish any and all classified material, or can such publication be treated as a crime? If there are limitations on the freedom to publish, who should impose such limits? AEI will host a panel of experts in journalism and national security to address these pressing questions.

Panelists:

Michael Isikoff, Newsweek (heh, heh…heh…)

Andrew C. McCarthy, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Stuart Taylor Jr., National Journal

R. James Woolsey, former CIA director

Moderator:

Michael A. Ledeen”

Can’t wait!