Senators Ask Former New York Times Lawyer If He'd Leak Army Secrets

Senators charged with vetting former New York Times Chief Legal Officer Solomon B. Watson IV for the position of general counsel for the army expressed concern yesterday that he might leak sensitive information to the media. Their reason for concern: a couple of Times stories published during his tenure that … revealed classified information.

The articles that Senator John McCain and others were worried about were the Pulitzer Prize – winning Times report on the Bush administration’s legal maneuverings concerning National Security Administration wiretaps and another story about a Belgian bank providing transaction data to U.S.

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