There is an article in today’s Los Angeles Times about the confession of Rosenberg co-defendent Morton Sobell that the Rosenbergs were guilty.  Here are two quotes from the article:

“The Rosenbergs were Soviet spies, and not minor ones either. Not only did they try their best to give the Soviets top atomic secrets from the Manhattan Project, they succeeded in handing over top military data on sonar and on radar that was used by the Russians to shoot down American planes in the Korean and Vietnam wars. That’s long been known, and Sobell confirmed it again last week.”

“Nevertheless, after Sobell’s confession of guilt, all other conspiracy theories about the Rosenberg case should come to an end. A pillar of the left-wing culture of grievance has been finally shattered. The Rosenbergs were actual and dangerous Soviet spies. It is time the ranks of the left acknowledge that the United States had (and has) real enemies and that finding and prosecuting them is not evidence of repression.

Ronald Radosh, an emeritus professor of history at City University of New York and an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, is the coauthor of “The Rosenberg File.”

The actions of these people caused death and injury to Americans in Vietnam and Korea.  In evaluating the case, that needs to be considered.  Are we ready to prosecute the leaks from the state department to certain newspapers that made it more difficult to track terrorist finances?  Just as the Rosenbergs caused the death and injury to our soldiers, the leaks to the New York Times may cost everyday Americans their lives because of terrorist plots that were not stopped.