April 12, 2009
New book from Gabriel Schoenfeld
Gabriel Schoenfeld will expand the March 2006 essay he wrote for Commentary magazine entitled, “Has the 'New York Times' Violated the Espionage Act?,” into a book that further explores the topic of leaking classified information to the media.
According to Publishers Weekly, Norton purchased the North American rights to Schoenfeld's latest, entitled, “Necessary Secrets.”
This will be the second book from Schoenfeld, a former senior editor at Commentary and currently a resident scholar at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, N.J. His first book, “The Return of Anti-Semitism,” was published by Encounter Books in 2004.
His 2006 essay in Commentary called for the government to prosecute several reporters and editors at the New York Times, saying the newspaper committed a crime by publishing details of the National Security Agency's warrentless surveillance of people in the United States. According to his Wikipedia entry, Schoenfeld later testified before Congress “on the responsibilities of the press in wartime.”
Tentative publication for the new book is 2011.
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