New York Times Publisher Arthur G. Sulzberger has an opinion piece in Wednesday’s edition lamenting the growing attacks on press freedom worldwide. Sulzberger is, of course, correct. Independent journalism has always been a risky endeavor in China, Russia, Iran, Iraqi Kurdistan, and across most Arab states, for example, but it is now becoming increasingly dangerous in places like Turkey, Poland, and Hungary.

It is about Egypt, however, that his article suggests a serious breach of intelligence by a rogue American official. Sulzberger explains: