Will the New York Times Once Again Fly in Formation With Wikileaks?

WikiLeaks is now promising to release the remaining 15,000 classified Afghan war documents it has in its possession. The Pentagon is asserting that grave harm will result. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell is calling the prospective publication the “height of irresponsibility.”

One important question is whether, as in its previous dump last month of some 76,000 secret field reports, WikiLeaks will provide—or has already provided–the electronic archive in advance to news outlets like the New York Times, extracting a promise to embargo them to ensure their simultaneous publication. “Flying in formation” with WikiLeaks is how a Wall Street Journal editorial aptly put the publicity-generating arrangement.