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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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To: lastchance
Kind of redundant, doncha think?
41 posted on 06/22/2008 10:14:06 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (RIGHT: Wots all this then?)
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To: TexasCajun

Does anybody have a set of nuts in the Bush government?

How can the Slimes do this?


42 posted on 06/22/2008 10:14:51 AM PDT by toddlintown (My kingdom for a beer!)
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To: TexasCajun

Does anybody have a set of nuts in the Bush government?

How can the Slimes do this?


43 posted on 06/22/2008 10:14:53 AM PDT by toddlintown (My kingdom for a beer!)
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To: Joe Boucher

If the administration had any balls, they would issue arrest warrrants and raid thye NY Times to shut it down.


44 posted on 06/22/2008 10:15:01 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: TexasCajun

How did the Times get this agents name? The leaker inside CIA should be jailed and executed.


45 posted on 06/22/2008 10:24:01 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Been here before)
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To: headstamp 2
This POS newspaper should be shut down by congress (Ha !)
They put the interrogator and his family in danger for their 1st amendment rights.
Meanwhile I try and do my part by mailing in any Business Reply Subscription Postcards I find lying around.
Yes, I know it is juvenile, but it takes $0.25 from their bottom line each time I find a postcard :-)
46 posted on 06/22/2008 10:29:28 AM PDT by a02001 (Help the third world poor one person at a time- www.kiva.org)
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To: TexasCajun

Death is a highly underrated motivator

Scott Shane
Pinch


47 posted on 06/22/2008 10:34:20 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
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To: TexasCajun

I am not a lawyer, but would like to know if there’s not some justification for legal action against the NY Times for this?


48 posted on 06/22/2008 10:37:20 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: TexasCajun

I hope the CIA operative doesn’t come to any harm, and that Scott Shane will be prosecuted for treason.


49 posted on 06/22/2008 10:41:36 AM PDT by American Quilter (John McCain--today's Scoop Jackson democrat. He should change parties.)
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To: kjo

Not that I recall.


50 posted on 06/22/2008 10:46:07 AM PDT by enduserindy (232 years and now we want to blow it?)
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To: TexasCajun

Sounds to me like this CIA operative was one of those ‘Shadow Warriors’ described in Timmerman’s book.

He or she probably did not care and the Times knew it.

Still doesn’t excuse the NYSlimes mind you, but that is what is going on here....Our rogue CIA!!


51 posted on 06/22/2008 10:46:35 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: American Quilter

It is up to us.


52 posted on 06/22/2008 10:51:41 AM PDT by threeoeight
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To: TexasCajun

I’ll go out on a limb and say the American people overwhelmingly favor interrogation tactics, waterboarding and even torture if necessary but just don’t want it blabbed all over the NY Times.


53 posted on 06/22/2008 10:57:17 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: TexasCajun

bump


54 posted on 06/22/2008 10:58:03 AM PDT by VOA
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To: SumProVita

Ask Barack Obama for a legal opinion.


55 posted on 06/22/2008 11:01:36 AM PDT by pleikumud
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To: TexasCajun

It is time to shut the rag down.


56 posted on 06/22/2008 11:05:40 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (High Maintenance Estrogen Bot........... look out :0))
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To: TexasCajun
New ‘Times’ Tower: ‘It's Like the Dark Ages’.

RATS and maggots at NT Times!!!! Oh Really????

With maggot-y ceilings and rats falling out of the air, it's like the dark ages in this building that was supposed to bring us into the 21st century."

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/07/new_times_tower_its_like_the_d.html

57 posted on 06/22/2008 11:06:37 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: TexasCajun
Hey, NYT, what would Tim Russert do?

-PJ

58 posted on 06/22/2008 11:08:38 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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To: pleikumud

Sorry, but I would prefer an answer from an expert...with substantial experience. :-)


59 posted on 06/22/2008 11:11:15 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: TexasCajun; All
Quote:
the Times's new publisher, Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr ... was a sixties anti-war activist who famously declared that in a confrontation between an American and a North Vietnamese soldier he'd want to see the American get shot."
Unquote.
Stanley Kurtz (NRO on line, June 5, 2001)
60 posted on 06/22/2008 11:17:44 AM PDT by aculeus
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