Times 2, Bush 0

Human Events ^ | June 30 2006 | Patrick J Buchanan

[nina0113]

As I said, I'm not sure how prosecuting a corporate entity would work, but the NYT published the evidence of their lawbreaking themselves. Obviously there's more to the case than just dumping the paper on the bench, like the letters to Santa in Miracle on 34th Street! But to claim that the inadvertent disclosure of the Chicago Tribune during WWII was equivalent to the NYT deliberate disclosure is incorrect.

I've read your posts with respect in the past, so I'm sure it was an oversight, but the Justice Department would actually be the prosecution, not the defense.

[nina0113]

...the NY Times will clamor that this is a dictatorial, secretive Administration that is trying to spy on people and take away their freedom and privacy...

Which would be different from their current position how?

[GOPJ]

A broken clock is right twice a day.

[GOPJ]

:)

[nina0113]

Pat doesn't know what's going on behind the scenes and neither does anyone else. Tony Snow implied to O'Reilly that the lawyers were looking into what could be done. Obviously the White House can't bring a case unless they know they can win, since all media guns will be aimed at the President for the duration of his term.

No, we don't know, but they ought to be preparing a case. Bush is in fact the nation's chief law enforcement officer and he damn well should at least make the effort at enforcing the law. I'd prefer the Adminstration actually win the case, but ignoring this criminality just enables more of the same. How much classified information should the NYT be allowed to publish on its front page? All they want? Or just until the next domestic attack, at which time the loudest critics of the Bush administration's failure to prevent it will be, you guessed it, the New York Times?

I've reached a position on whether the NYT's White House press credentials should be pulled, and my answer is - not until the case is filed. At that time, they should be. Otherwise it's just petty.

[nina0113]

A broken clock is right twice a day.

In Pat's case, it's twice a YEAR, but this is one of them.

[new yorker 77]

That clock only has the cuckoo bird left.

[nopardons]

Yes, Pat really IS this stupid; not to mention hateful and spiteful and nauseating!

[ANGGAPO]

Don't hold your breath. We have lost any chance to put the traders in jail or out of business. The administration has no OO.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Everyone needs to calm the F down on this issue.

President Bush is doing the right thing here by giving the Slimes enough rope to hang themselves with. Unfortunately, public opinion is NOT on the President's side here, a lot of people still view the Times as this heroic institution going up against Nixon II.

Bush and the DOJ right now are evaluating the options and letting the facts slowly but surely come out on this rather than knee-jerking and making a spectacle of this. Let the wheels of justice do their grinding, for God's sake.

[nopardons]

Neither you nor Pat is "objective" at all. And your nic needs to be changed; it is inaccurate and misleading.

[Lazamataz]

[OldFriend]

We had traitors in the US who gave atom bomb secrets to the russians.

The granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg is an activist AGAINST the US right now.

It has always been good vs. evil. And many many have died in that battle.

We can only pray that we continue to be blessed by electing people like George W. Bush.

[Reagan Man]

Stop whining. Debate the facts, or STFU.

[Rome2000]

The answer so far is that the Bushites are going to do nothing other than fulminate and pound the Post and Times.

Only 2 more years left of the wasp Skull&Bones cabal.

The leftist media had better watch out when President Giuliani comes to town.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>The leftist media had better watch out when President Giuliani comes to town.

President Giuliani. LMBO

[nopardons]

Oooooooooooooo...struck a nerve did I? :-)

I am debating the facts...unlike you and Pat.

[Calif Conservative]

**all media guns will be aimed at the President for the duration of his term. **

That's different from the current situation how, exactly? ;)

-George

[michigander]

Are both sides just a bunch of whiners?

Interesting question. It would be preferable to give another answer but, yes, it appears they are.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>Oooooooooooooo...struck a nerve did I? :-)

Not at all. I just get tired of wasting my time with all you Bush cheerleaders. RAH RAH RAH!

>>>>I am debating the facts...unlike you and Pat.

Well, your posts at 48, 51 and 57 have nothing to do with what Pat wrote in the article.