Apparently there has been a reversal of the NY Times position on printing government secrets in a time of war. Via Michelle Malkin:

“Un. Freaking. Believable. The NYTimes ombudsman, Byron Calame, buried a bombshell mea culpa in his column today–reversing his prior defense of the Times’ blabbermouth report on a once-secret terrorist banking data surveillance program and now admitting the paper was wrong to publish it:

Since the job of public editor requires me to probe and question the published work and wisdom of Times journalists, there’s a special responsibility for me to acknowledge my own flawed assessments.
My July 2 column strongly supported The Times’s decision to publish its June 23 article on a once-secret banking-data surveillance program. After pondering for several months, I have decided I was off base. There were reasons to publish the controversial article, but they were slightly outweighed by two factors to which I gave too little emphasis. While it’s a close call now, as it was then, I don’t think the article should have been published.

NOW HE TELLS US?!”

Well there is a reason for this sudden reversal of position. It’s actually quite simple.

While the grand jury investigation is still on-going, and information scarce, the fact is that there should be cause for nervousness at the Times.