In March, Gabriel Schoenfeld wrote a brilliant piece in Commentary in which he argued that the New York Times revelations about the NSA program warranted prosecution under Section 798 of Title 18, the so—called Comint statute.  
 
In the article he details the history and language of the Act and its 1950 amendment and argues that the language is unambiguous and certainly covers the paper's disclosures of the NSA program, which substantially harmed our counter terrorism activities.

Here are the critical  provisions of the Act: