GOP bill targets NY Times

The Hill ^ | 5.27.06

[bnelson44]

House Republican leaders are expected to introduce a resolution today condemning The New York Times for publishing a story last week that exposed government monitoring of banking records.

The resolution is expected to condemn the leak and publication of classified documents, said one Republican aide with knowledge of the impending legislation.

The resolution comes as Republicans from the president on down condemn media organizations for reporting on the secret government program that tracked financial records overseas through the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT), an international banking cooperative.

[CindyDawg]

shouldn't they find out where the leak is coming from, first?

[bnelson44]

Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.), working independently from his leadership, began circulating a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) during a late series of votes yesterday asking his leaders to revoke the Times’s congressional press credentials.

Go get'em J.D!!!!

[bnelson44]

They never find the leakers. So you need to get the MSM not to want to publish the leaks.

[12th_Monkey]

I like it, but I doubt it will pass. I would rather the AG kick their a$$.

[reaganandme]

They need to prosecute. The New York Times doesn't get to decide what is classified and what isn't. In a time of war, the NYT has assisted our enemies at every turn.

[Boundless]

> ... asking his leaders to revoke the Times’s
> congressional press credentials.

The White House needs to do the same. Just what does
a so-called reporter have to do to get their WH Press
Pass revoked?

Heck, they needed to kick out most of those bums,
including the Gorgon Lady, years ago.

Meanwhile, are there any web sites that report on
who are the current advertisers in the NYT and other
members of the Domestic Enemy Press?

Some concerned citizen letters to the money sources
might help.

Of course, Rush could jut buy the NYT, and shut it down.

[bnelson44]

I would rather both happen :)

[garbageseeker]

I hope they pass it.

[Southack]

"They never find the leakers."

Incorrect.

Our guys caught Mary O. McCarthy leaking the CIA prisons story.

[o_zarkman44]

Is a House Resolution comparable to a UN resolution?

How about resolving to start arresting everyone at the NYT associated with the story? Let them spend some of their money on legal fees and bail.

[12th_Monkey]

So would I just to see the RATS pitch a sh** fit...

[teletech]

A resolution with NO TEETH. Why bother? I want the NYT OUT OF BUSINESS!!

[Libloather]

Convict and jail the writers. Then, after they meet their jail mate Bubba, work the way up the chain of 'whistle blowers', so to speak...

[Jameison]

"shouldn't they find out where the leak is coming from, first?"

No.
Get The ***kers from The Slimes.
Right now, I don't even care about leakers, I want those vermin at The Slimes destroyed!!

[Jameison]

"Convict and jail the writers. Then, after they meet their jail mate Bubba, work the way up the chain of 'whistle blowers', so to speak..."

Exactly!

[bnelson44]

The letter:

http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/NYT-Hastert%20letter.pdf

[AirBorn]

Will never happen.

Haven't you just read the lastest entry in the long list of diappointed votes by our " Elected REPRESENTATIVES " ??

The " Flag Desecration Bill " missed being voted into law due to --once again--the officials we ELECTED Based on their STANDS and their Party's ALLEGIANCE to OUR WISHES of Faithfully following the standards of the U.S. Constitution!

First the lack of support for our PRESIDENT!

The the Lack of FULL-"VOICED" support for our Troops & War!

The Lack of Support for Immigration Laws!

and the Lack of VOICE in opposing the Radicals in the media and demorat party!

Nope--we got stuck with just another bunch of aggrandizing, politcally correct welchers that has much as hurt us as would the oppposition party would have if they HAD been elected.

[Jameison]

"The " Flag Desecration Bill " missed being voted into law due to --once again--the officials we ELECTED Based on their STANDS and their Party's ALLEGIANCE to OUR WISHES of Faithfully following the standards of the U.S. Constitution! "

That bill had it's closest vote ever.
Plus overwhelmingly, Republican Senators voted for it.
The guys that voted against it include people like Lincoln Cafee, Olympia Snow etc.
Who cares about those people?
I am not worried about Chafee.

[SaxxonWoods]

This type of resolution has its' purposes. In this case, it forces the people's representatives to take a side in public regarding the behavior of the MSM.

This kind of resolution is instructive for the people, just as the "cut and run" votes have been instructive. This will help our cause, and make the MSM scum squirm.

There will be no prosecution of the NYT or LAT, that's not politically feasible. We do need to catch and prosecute the originating leakers, they are doing tremendous damage to the country.