Shan,

It's not directly a domestic security issue for the "American homeland," but if you've ever worked in security and if you paid ANY attention to the hostage situation in the US embassy in Iran (1979), you'd understand why it's a serious problem and a yes, a "compromise." Somebody dropped the ball on this, the plans should have been kept confidential and for official use only, even if not initially classified.

Imagine, just for a moment, before you start forming a politically driven opinion on this subject, just IMAGINE having the job of security for this embassy knowing that the plans for your building were released and publicized, as this surely will be.

The AP should be thoughtful and respectful enough to not release it, but I suspect the damage is already done and it may not matter what they do. Of course, AP will automatically assume this as well and therefor go forward and make a buck on it anyway. And unfortunately, they may do it at a great cost to people they don't even know or care about. Business as usual for the MSM and AP.

And people think "corporations" are so big and bad... what about those who call anything and everything "news worthy," no matter what the cost? To the AP, this is potentially as great as the NY Times "pulitzer" prize winning intelligence exposes, no? Except, in all of these cases, there was no real good, constructive reason for publishing any of it.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jun2006/time-j28.shtml
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/013794.php

...and AP's own winning history, not really (which is also linked from the above Powerline Blog link):

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/010066.php#010066

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