I haven't seen the Times article, but I am suspicious of people who tell Americans what should or shouldn't be reported in the news, and there has been a lot of that sort of thing happening lately. The administration's phony outrage at the Newsweek Koran story is just one high-profile example of their obsession with trying to control how people think.

If your point is that news media shouldn't needlessly endanger our troops and overseas operatives, then I agree. Whether the Times has done that is beyond me.