New York Times Should Face The Music
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NY Times Should Face the Music
The once powerful NY Times has done a marvelous job in recent years of chipping away at its own credibility. Through a series of missteps and the increasingly overt displays of left wing bias, the newspaper is in grave danger of becoming not only irrelevant, but also untrustworthy to mainstream America. That is the kiss of death for any media outlet. In addition, the recent disclosure of yet another classified program aimed at tracking the financial activities of terrorists and terror organizations shows that the New York Times feels it can operate without accountability. These actions are arrogant to be sure, and they also hurt America’s war on terror.
On Friday, the NY Times published a story titled “Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror” which details the federal government’s program of tracking terrorists and terror organizations through their trail of financial transactions. According to the NY Times, “The program is limited, government officials say, to tracing transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda by reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperative that routes about $6 trillion daily between banks, brokerages, stock exchanges and other institutions.”
The NY Times goes on to describe the program in greater detail and notes several “officials” who said that the access to large amounts of confidential data was “highly unusual” and “stirred concerns inside the administration about legal and privacy issues.” However, no case has been made that the program is illegal or, in any way, violates the Constitution. Instead, the NY Times took it upon itself to devulge a classified war effort simply because they felt it was “in the public interest.”
In comments to reporters on Monday, President Bush called the disclosure “disgraceful” and said that for people to leak information and for a newspaper to publish it during a time of war “does great harm to the United States of America.”
“If you want to figure out what the terrorists are doing, you try to follow their money,” President Bush said. “And the fact that a newspaper disclosed it makes it harder to win this war on terror.”
Representative Peter King (R-NY), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said that the NY Times should be prosecuted. Speaking on FOX News Sunday, King said, “By disclosing this in time of war, they have compromised America’s anti-terrorist policies.”
“Nobody elected The New York Times to do anything,” King added. “And The New York Times is putting its own arrogant, elitist, left-wing agenda before the interests of the American people.”
Yes, there is a freedom of the press, and that freedom comes with responsibilities. There are many classified programs which would be fascinating to know about. But that doesn’t mean I have a “right” to know them. When we are talking about fighting a war on terror, the “public interest” is also served by seeing to it that the government is able to fight the most effective war possible. The actions by the New York Times hurt this effort, and they should be held accountable for these actions.
Editor Bill Keller, Feeling The Heat, Pompously Defends Latest Attack On US Spy Program
Read Full Story Here
GOP Bill Targets NY Times
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Not only does something need to be done about the NY Times and all the other papers involved, but FIND THE LEAKER AS WELL!!
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Update: Ed Meese: NY Times Aiding The Enemy
Ed Meese: N.Y. Times Aiding Enemy
Former Attorney General Ed Meese accused the New York Times of "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" a term that fits the definition of treason.
Interviewed Monday on Rush Limbaugh's radio show, Meese said the Times' outing of the CIA and Treasury Department's tracking of financial transactions by al-Qaida and other terrorist groups was its "the third offense," Pipeline News reported.
According to Meese, the Times' exposure of of the existence of the NSA program to track al-Qaida communications, their outing of the logging of phone records and now the publishing of the details of the financial tracking operation were cases of newspaper "putting the enemy on notice." That, he said was giving "aid and comfort to the enemy."
Pipeline News pointed out that this "is the classic definition of treason going back at least 600 years, to Britain's Treason Act of 1351, which defines high treason, in part as: 'or be adherent to the King's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm...'"
NY Times Should Face the Music
The once powerful NY Times has done a marvelous job in recent years of chipping away at its own credibility. Through a series of missteps and the increasingly overt displays of left wing bias, the newspaper is in grave danger of becoming not only irrelevant, but also untrustworthy to mainstream America. That is the kiss of death for any media outlet. In addition, the recent disclosure of yet another classified program aimed at tracking the financial activities of terrorists and terror organizations shows that the New York Times feels it can operate without accountability. These actions are arrogant to be sure, and they also hurt America’s war on terror.
On Friday, the NY Times published a story titled “Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror” which details the federal government’s program of tracking terrorists and terror organizations through their trail of financial transactions. According to the NY Times, “The program is limited, government officials say, to tracing transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda by reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperative that routes about $6 trillion daily between banks, brokerages, stock exchanges and other institutions.”
The NY Times goes on to describe the program in greater detail and notes several “officials” who said that the access to large amounts of confidential data was “highly unusual” and “stirred concerns inside the administration about legal and privacy issues.” However, no case has been made that the program is illegal or, in any way, violates the Constitution. Instead, the NY Times took it upon itself to devulge a classified war effort simply because they felt it was “in the public interest.”
In comments to reporters on Monday, President Bush called the disclosure “disgraceful” and said that for people to leak information and for a newspaper to publish it during a time of war “does great harm to the United States of America.”
“If you want to figure out what the terrorists are doing, you try to follow their money,” President Bush said. “And the fact that a newspaper disclosed it makes it harder to win this war on terror.”
Representative Peter King (R-NY), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said that the NY Times should be prosecuted. Speaking on FOX News Sunday, King said, “By disclosing this in time of war, they have compromised America’s anti-terrorist policies.”
“Nobody elected The New York Times to do anything,” King added. “And The New York Times is putting its own arrogant, elitist, left-wing agenda before the interests of the American people.”
Yes, there is a freedom of the press, and that freedom comes with responsibilities. There are many classified programs which would be fascinating to know about. But that doesn’t mean I have a “right” to know them. When we are talking about fighting a war on terror, the “public interest” is also served by seeing to it that the government is able to fight the most effective war possible. The actions by the New York Times hurt this effort, and they should be held accountable for these actions.
Editor Bill Keller, Feeling The Heat, Pompously Defends Latest Attack On US Spy Program
Read Full Story Here
GOP Bill Targets NY Times
Read Full Story Here
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Not only does something need to be done about the NY Times and all the other papers involved, but FIND THE LEAKER AS WELL!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Update: Ed Meese: NY Times Aiding The Enemy
Ed Meese: N.Y. Times Aiding Enemy
Former Attorney General Ed Meese accused the New York Times of "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" a term that fits the definition of treason.
Interviewed Monday on Rush Limbaugh's radio show, Meese said the Times' outing of the CIA and Treasury Department's tracking of financial transactions by al-Qaida and other terrorist groups was its "the third offense," Pipeline News reported.
According to Meese, the Times' exposure of of the existence of the NSA program to track al-Qaida communications, their outing of the logging of phone records and now the publishing of the details of the financial tracking operation were cases of newspaper "putting the enemy on notice." That, he said was giving "aid and comfort to the enemy."
Pipeline News pointed out that this "is the classic definition of treason going back at least 600 years, to Britain's Treason Act of 1351, which defines high treason, in part as: 'or be adherent to the King's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm...'"
posted by Marie's Two Cents | 11:54 AM
2 Comments:
Marietwocents I agreee the newyorktimes online should be held responsable for printing all this stuff they are treating us as the criminals.
Sick,
Actually thier actions were "Criminal", and I would support measures taken against them. This time they have gone way to far.
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