Posted on 06/01/2005 5:55:17 PM PDT by wagglebee
If you want to know what the CIA is up to, just read the New York Times. They'll be only to happy to tell you – and America's enemies – whatever top secret information they can get their hands on, even if disclosing it has disastrous effects on America's national security.
Using their network of CIA and other leftist government blabbermouths, the Times and its colleagues at other such rabidly anti-administration members of the media as the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times can't wait to reveal the full details of any secret government or military operation they can uncover, and damn the consequences to the United States of America.
Take the latest episode of the Times' ongoing "Operation Let's Trash the U.S. National Security" – an expose of a till-now-undercover CIA airline, under the banner line "CIA Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights."
Based on the usual conglomeration of leaks from anonymous sources, comments from Times-friendly leftist academics, named and unnamed former and current CIA agents, and employees of Aero Contractors Ltd. – the reported CIA airline – the Times expose alleges:
"When the Central Intelligence Agency wants to grab a suspected member of Al Qaeda overseas and deliver him to interrogators in another country, an Aero Contractors plane often does the job. If agency experts need to fly overseas in a hurry after the capture of a prized prisoner, a plane will depart Johnston County [the alleged CIA airport in North Carolina] and stop at Dulles Airport outside Washington to pick up the C.I.A. team on the way."
Along the way, the story manages to provide an inventory of Aero's jet fleet, break the cover of CIA rural hideaways, front companies and shell corporations, and reveal past covert operations, all of which provide fodder for foreign groups and nations anxious to portray the U.S. as a practitioner of the blackest of the black arts or to bolster their claims that the U.S. routinely allows allied nations to torture its detainees. Not to mention, of course, also supplying the enemy with valuable information on possible targets.
The Times almost salivates over the Amnesty International allegation, to which it gives generous space in the article "U.S. 'Thumbs Its Nose' at Rights, Amnesty Says." The article says that the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo is a "gulag" – the Soviet network of concentration camps where millions perished – and provides a sidebar on the death of two detainees in the Bagram facility in Iraq.
If you think that these disclosures are an accident, or merely examples of dogged investigative journalism, you have another think coming. They're deliberate, and calculated to do as much harm as possible to the U.S. efforts to fight the war against Islamofascist terrorism.
It is treason, unadorned, and let's dare to call it that.
By giving any credence to the torture allegations, the Times ignores the instructions in what the Washington Times described as "al Qaeda's most extensive manual for how to wage war," found in a raid on an al Qaeda cell in Manchester, England, by British authorities.
A directive lists one terrorist mission as "spreading rumors and writing statements that instigate people against the enemy." If captured, the manual states, "At the beginning of the trial ... the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by state security before the judge. Complain of mistreatment while in prison." The handbook instructs commanders to make sure operatives, or "brothers," understand what to say if captured.
And when they say it, the Times is all ears.
In addition to bringing down the effort to protect Americans from worldwide terrorist attacks a la 9/11, the assault by the Times and the rest of big media on the war in Iraq and the pacification of Afghanistan is an attack on their hated foe, the administration of George W. Bush – who in their eyes is a greater enemy of mankind than Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein put together.
It is in their best interests to see the U.S. fall flat on its face in the Middle East, because they believe it will result in George Bush falling flat on his face at home.
Besides, the fallen Hussein Ba'athest party was a socialist party, and the Marxist-dominated New York Times must surely subscribe to the old communist adage of having "no enemies to the left."
They are correct in seeing President Bush as their real enemy and his policies, foreign and domestic, as initiatives that must be stopped dead in their tracks. George Bush and the conservative majority that supports him pose the greatest threat to the realization of their incompletely fulfilled dream of an America ruled by a Marxist elite.
That's what's behind their ongoing flirtation with outright treason. It can be seen not only in the current battles now being waged on Capitol Hill, but also in the constant drumbeat of slander and deception being waged against the GOP and conservatives around the nation.
One need only to look at the machinations of the National Socialist Democrat Abortion Party (NSDAP) in the battle over judicial nominations. What's at stake here is the potential loosening of the grip the Marxists now hold on the federal and state judiciary.
Unable to enact the programs and policies of their Marxist and secular agenda through legislative action, they have been able to put into place judges who will turn their backs on the Constitution and do the job for them, often ruling against the popular will as expressed through the electoral process.
With scores of empty seats on the federal bench, and facing at least one or two vacancies on the United States Supreme Court, President Bush has an opportunity to redress the imbalance now favoring the extreme left and appoint constitutionalist jurists who will interpret the Constitution as it was written and not as they wish it were written.
No matter what it takes, this must not be allowed to happen, because if it does, almost a century of Marxist advances can begin to be undone in one fell swoop.
So, too, it is with the war on Islamic terrorism. Success in that war will redound to the credit of President Bush and his supporters, thus strengthening him in his efforts to enact his domestic agenda.
So, if it takes a little treason, the Times will make the most of it.
Treason is as treason does.
Dan Rather was rather good at this...
It is long past time to jail people for treason again.
These people are an ever increasing threat to our country now. It is time to stomp on them. We can start with Mark Felt - that MF and the WP reporters ought to be jailed right now.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
US Constitution, Article III, Section 3
The hell with prison, it's time to start executing traitors again!
However, based on this clear definition of treason, I don't think Felt, Woodward or Bernstein can be tried for Deep Throat.
None Dare Call it Treason and None Dare Call it Treason 25 Years Later--two great books.
I read the original one a long time ago, but not the second.
Bump for later!
quit confusing me with facts... lol
I want a piece of flesh!
There's got to be something he can be indicted for. A lawyer friend of mine thinks he could be. Others who protected him should be included in this action.
By the way, I'm not kidding, either.
Yep! Time to call a spade a spade.
That CIA plane info is stunning. Now those planes are a target - this is just outrageous.
The New York Times didn't get all this information by themselves. Someone leaked it to them. The New York Times is not trained in the handling of classified material. The person who leaked it was.
The true traitor is the person who leaked the classified material. He or she is 100 times the traitor that many of you claim the New York Times is. Not that the New York Times' actions are excusable. They should have consulted the government over the story prior to releasing it. They should have realized that it may put Americans lives at risk.
These public stories and leaks will stop when someone is killed. Fortunately, the US intelligence community is smart enough to adjust tactics when stories become public to prevent that. But that can't last forever.
The problem is, what I think doesn't matter. I am neither a Constitutional attorney nor a member of any Attorney General's office.
I keep asking the same question over and over hoping that someone, somewhere has an authoritative answer:
When was the last time anyone was tried successfuly for treason or sedition?
Who needs to bring the charge? any ordinary citizen?
We have had plenty of candidates in the last 40 years, but it seems the concepts of treason and sedition have simply disappeared.
Does anyone know?
Clear?
Nothing clear about it!
Explain this:
...or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
If researching and writing the enemy's propaganda for them, and identifying an element of our national defense to them are not "giving them aid and comfort", I don't know what is.
It's past time for them to pay the pied Piper. People, or media outlets who put our country at risk need to be brought up on charges.
No matter how much we rail and protest, the die has been cast for a one-world government. Anti-trust laws have all but evaporated, so we have mega-corporations merging with others like them. Ultimately - just like in that great prophetic '70's film "Rollerball" - one corporation will deliver energy, one food, one medicine, one childcare, one education. The most noticeable institutional absence will be the church.
As we're seeing unfold before our eyes, the very concept of treason has been neutralized - exactly like borders, language and culture. It may take longer than the string-pullers would prefer, but the coming days of evil have been well documented for us in G-d's word - and in the daily headlines.
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