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New York Times Outs CIA Operative
NewsBusters.org ^ | June 22, 2008 - 10:12 ET | Mick Wright |

Posted on 06/22/2008 8:49:33 AM PDT by TexasCajun

In an astonishing stroke of irony, the New York Times has outed the name of the CIA operative who interrogated 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, over the objections of CIA Director Michael V. Hayden and a lawyer representing the operative.

Agency officials and legal counsel told the Times that publishing the agent's name would "invade his privacy and put him at risk of retaliation from terrorists or harassment from critics of the agency."

In an Editor's Note linked from the story on KSM's interrogation, the Times defended its decision by stating that "other government employees" had been "named publicly in books and published articles" or had chosen to go public themselves, by explaining that its policy "is to withhold the name of a news subject only very rarely," and by arguing the operative's name "was necessary for the credibility and completeness of the article."

Times reporter Scott Shane describes his scoop as "the closest look to date beneath the blanket of secrecy that hides the program from terrorists and from critics who accuse the agency of torture."

The CIA apparently believes that by publishing the operative's name, the Times put the agent at risk for retaliatory strikes from such "critics" and terrorists, despite his here-described lack of participation in the agency's "harsh interrogation methods."

Of course, this is just the latest in a long string of Times articles that have leaked classified and guarded information critical to America's security and that of its people and public servants. Alert readers have long since stopped expecting any level of consistency from the same liberal media that was obsessed with the naming of Valerie Plame (though they've been considerably less obsessed with the actual source of Robert Novak's column, Richard Armitage).

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The Libs at the NYTimes are at it again!
1 posted on 06/22/2008 8:49:33 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

The same people who whined about Mrs. Wilson getting outed think this is great... I love the media! (/sarcasm)


2 posted on 06/22/2008 8:51:35 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Wanted: A Presidential Candidate I can vote FOR...)
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To: TexasCajun

Didn’t the NYTIMES used to be a big, important, influential newspaper once........?


3 posted on 06/22/2008 8:54:42 AM PDT by kjo
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To: TexasCajun

...the NYT? Aren’t these the same people who wanted criminal charges for the Bush officials that leaked Plame’s name?


4 posted on 06/22/2008 8:55:18 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
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To: TexasCajun

Once again The Slimes proves which side it is on in the fight against terrorism.


5 posted on 06/22/2008 8:55:36 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: TexasCajun

Hypocrisy doesn’t apply to liberals.


6 posted on 06/22/2008 8:56:06 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: TexasCajun

I demand an investigation! What did Cheney and Rove know, when did they know it, and did this “go all the way to the top”? Ah, you mean Chaney and Rove weren’t involved? Oh well then, let’s just bury it.


7 posted on 06/22/2008 8:56:31 AM PDT by FMBass ("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
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The Libs at the NYTimes are at it again!

TRAITORS!

8 posted on 06/22/2008 8:57:10 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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New York Times Outs CIA Operative

What say you two pieces of crap?

9 posted on 06/22/2008 8:58:03 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: TexasCajun
Evil. Pure evil.


10 posted on 06/22/2008 8:58:43 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: TexasCajun

If the C.I.A. had any balls they would just kill the N.Y. Times editors and send a message to the rest of our pathetic unAmerican news operatives to not go too far in their unAmerican agenda.


11 posted on 06/22/2008 8:58:49 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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Times defended its decision by stating that "other government employees" had been "named publicly in books and published articles"...

Funny how this NYT policy complements the Muslim philosophy that if a muslim land is ruled by muslims for any second in history, it is fair game to become muslim now, and forever. Since someone once in history had been outed as CIA, now the NYT can and will do it, justifiably in NYT 'mind', now and forever.

12 posted on 06/22/2008 8:59:25 AM PDT by C210N (The television has mounted the most serious assault on Republicanism since Das Kapital.)
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To: TexasCajun

It’s “Scooter” Libby’s fault!


13 posted on 06/22/2008 8:59:31 AM PDT by lonestar
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To: TexasCajun

Frog march!


14 posted on 06/22/2008 9:00:24 AM PDT by SouthTexas (If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!)
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Agency officials and legal counsel told the Times that publishing the agent's name would "invade his privacy and put him at risk of retaliation from terrorists or harassment from critics of the agency."

Uh..isnt this the standard applied to the Plame case??

15 posted on 06/22/2008 9:00:39 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Obama and Osama, whats the difference?)
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To: TexasCajun

Shut them down now.


16 posted on 06/22/2008 9:00:48 AM PDT by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: TexasCajun

TREASON!!!

Shut the rag down!


17 posted on 06/22/2008 9:04:32 AM PDT by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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To: TexasCajun
It's their way of getting back at an administration they absolutely loathe and it's counter terrorism policies that they probably would raise a peep over were it the policy of a socially liberal President.

It always boils down to whether one is a culture conservative or a culture liberal.

The NYT is more concerned about the big bogeyman they view as the religious right and the association with the GOP than they are national security.

18 posted on 06/22/2008 9:05:59 AM PDT by wardaddy (if I could slap Obama will he fight back like a black man or bitch up like a metero white boy?)
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To: cardinal4

Let’s see how fast the CIA sends a criminal referral to the Justice Department... They were pretty quick in the Plame-affair.

Frankly, I would want to be the journalist. There have been several writers & editors who have cooled their heels in prison over sources. I don’t think anybody is going to sweat throwing a journalist into prison over this straightforward violation.


19 posted on 06/22/2008 9:06:23 AM PDT by Tallguy (Tagline is offline till something better comes along...)
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To: TexasCajun

...The end of their article published in the Herald even gives his present job...paint the target.


20 posted on 06/22/2008 9:08:12 AM PDT by UltraKonservativen (( YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!!!))
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