The fifth estate isn't an apparatus of the government. Sometimes, it must act counter to the interests of the government.

First of all, none of this is actually important for national security. Second, the media does this to help hold government accountable.

Two points, in reverse order:

> why do the media broadcast it for the rest of the world to see?

ICE broadcasted it, didn't they? It's in nobody's best interest to pretend that the information was successfully redacted.

> this seems to be of uttermost importance pertaining to national security

Are we talking about the same ICE? ICE is a joke; everyone was better off before it was created in 2002 and it should be abolished and prevented from wasting any more of my money on "URBAN WARFARE!1!" facilities. Give me a break.

The press is partially there to disagree with or at least critique such subjective judgments.

There is a balance to be struck, sure, but the duty of the press is to inform the public, not to act as censors or to determine what is or is not a matter of national security.

Because governments should be accountable to the governed, and the media is part of the governed. Media is not a separate arm of the people, it is a more involved and interpreted part of the people.

This is why it’s so alarming when a politician calls media “the enemy” because they are, in effect, saying their own people are the enemy.

They’re doing their job? It was a leak. Also ICE screwed up.