In an Opinion editorial, Los Angeles Times and New York Times editors Dean Baquet and Bill Keller try to decide when journalism is guilty of too much information.
In recent years our papers have brought you a great deal of information the White House never intended for you to know — classified secrets about the questionable intelligence that led the country to war in Iraq, about the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, about the transfer of suspects to countries that are not squeamish about using torture, about eavesdropping without warrants.