Posted on 12/14/2007 8:08:19 AM PST by TennTuxedo
December 14, 2007
A real Whopper from the New York Times
Ed Lasky
Today's New York Time runs an editorial that defies belief and makes clear that the paper lives in a different moral universe where it remains blind to its own flaws. In "Notes from the Global War in Terror" the paper condemns President Bush for:
the damage President Bush has done to America’s intelligence-gathering capabilities in the name of fighting terrorism.
This comes from the paper that has led the way in eviscerating our intelligence capabilities to thwart terror. The paper has disclosed a secret program (the "SWIFT" program) to monitor financial transactions that may be used to fund terror (the Israelis have credited this program with preventing suicide attacks). Then, two of its "ace" reporters tipped off groups that they were being investigated by the FBI and that raids were imminent (allowing these groups to destroy evidence). The prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald of Valerie Plame fame-directly blamed these two reporters for severely damaging his case. The failed prosecution was because Fitzgerald believed the reporters tipped off a Chicago-based group that it was being investigated by the FBI.
They have opposed techniques designed to elicit information regarding terror attacks-which it has labeled "torture" ("waterboarding" - one of the techniques condemned by the Times - has been used exactly THREE times and will unlikely ever to be used again despite evidence that it led to valuable information); disclosed and opposed the monitoring of electronic communication between foreign sources and US-based terror suspects; opposed the worldwide Echelon system-a very sophisticated network designed to sift the airwaves for evdience that might lead to the prevention of terrror attacks, though it supported the same program under the Clinton Administration; has opposed the expansion of the ability to use warrants to discover terror ties and prevent attacks; has disclosed methods used in interrogations that will help prepare terror suspects from resisting them in the future.
Should I go on? They supported Florida Professor Sami-Al Arian from accusations that he funneled funds to terror groups (a charge he pled guilty to with no apology from the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff for his never-ending support for Al-Arian); has advocated for the "legal rights' of terrorists imprisoned in Guantanomo Bay and has called for the closing of that prison despite its immense value in the war on terror; disclosed the rarely used but potentially vital practice of rendition where terror suspects are captured and sent to other nations for interrogation. They even dislcosed the charter air companies and schedules for these transfers of prisoners.
And the list can be easly extended and probably will be as the Bush Administration comes to a close and officials leak information to the paper for partisan purposes and to burnish their own reputations as a presumably Democratic Presidency takes office.
The Times has been in the forefront of disclosing the means and methods used to investigate terrorists. The paper is a conduit for those in the intelligence community to "leak" sensitive information that has ahd the effect of harming our ability to investigate terror groups. The paper is blind (or worse apathetic) to the damage it has caused to America's ability to investigate terror groups. The level of hypocrisy and gall that it shows in today's paper for condemning the Bush Administration for damagaing our nations's intelligence gathering capabilities is simply astounding.
be back when I can quit choking
First Amendment... Can’t make laws regarding the freedom of the press.
But, there are laws against being traitors.....
Quick, call the physicists—we have proof-positive of an alternate universe! Up is down, etc.
hey they’re homosexuals at the NY Times.
That means that words are like odors.
Treason Times is a very sick paper.
On the bright side, its stock price is falling. Pinch and his gang of spies is in deep trouble.
We did “harm” to the information gathering efforts of our security teams. The information gathered prior to the 2003 Iraq war was called “wrong” by same media. Has it gotten that much worse?
And the media has done a lot to leak what methods we use to gather information.
There are laws against what is printed.
Libel is criminal. False advertising is criminal. Treason is criminal...
Excellent piece!
Thanks for posting it.
I also saw in the Times....but was hesitant to admit that I read it on this forum, LOL....in yesterday’s paper, the claim that Bushs’ tax cuts had done incredible damage to Treasury revenues and that we just have to raise taxes. Under the title “The Tax Debate That Isn’t:...
“If there’s one issue on which Rep pres hopefuls should feel vulnerable, it’s taxes. The Bush tax cuts, more than any other policy, are crippling the gov’t financially.
From 2002 to 2011, foregone revenue from the cuts will account for 37% of the fed budget’s descent into the red, according to the Congressional Budget Office.....”
The NY Times is so utterly asinine. Facts mean absolutely nothing to them.
Pinch will have his spot in hell right next to the Clintons!
Call it what it is ESPIONAGE!!!!!
The Espionage Act of 1917 was a United States federal law passed shortly after entering World War I, on June 15, 1917, which made it a crime for a person to convey information with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies. It was punishable by a maximum $USD 10,000 fine (almost $170,000 in today’s dollars) and 20 years in prison. The legislation was passed at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, who feared any widespread dissent in time of war, thinking that it constituted a real threat to an American territory!
A real Whopper from the New York Times
News Media Should 'Regulate' New Media/Bloggers
The hyperpartisan New York Times can't even 'regulate' itself. And aren't the "New Media/Bloggers" doing a really good job of regulating the "News Media"?
Whadday'say, Dan, ol' buddy, ol' pal?
I’m coining a new phrase for the NYT.
“Koran-wrap”
Maybe the bush administration should be spying on the CIA.
I thought I said that......
And I was being sarcastic about the ‘First Amendment’ part.
Geez.
I wasn’t aware that the NY Times held any credibility with anyone any more, so what’s one more lie.
How odd that EVERY other right is subject to reasonable restrictions... but the Free Press (and abortion) seem to be unassailable and sacrosanct. Hmmm...
Obviously I forgot the /sarc tag.
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