While major papers wrote about the Indian Express scoop taking a view, Mail Today went off on a strident national interest binge. Both its editor and its national security specialist took the view that a newspaper is not supposed to do anything which does disservice to the national interest. It claimed that the Express report had damaged the country's body politic. The Hindu on the other hand said sensibly that the Express's treatment was overblown but it was entirely within its rights to write on a sensitive matter like this.