On Friday night, hours before the U.S. military launched an operation in Venezuela, in which forces captured President Nicolás Maduro, The New York Times and The Washington Post learned of the plan. However, both held off publication for several hours after President Donald Trump’s administration warned that reporting could endanger U.S. troops, as reported by the news publication Semafor. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised the decision in an interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC News, stating that numerous factors had to line up in order for the operation to take place. Rubio thanked the media for choosing to hold their stories, or else “lives could have been lost.” While the U.S. government is legally unable to force a publication to hold or drop a story due to First Amendment protections against censorship, many papers will decide to hold a story for some time if they believe its immediate publication will risk the lives of American soldiers, according to Edward Wa...