When Will NYT Reveal One of al Qaeda's Secret Programs?

Human Events Online ^ | 6/28/06 | Ann Coulter

[Enchante]

The federal statute on treason, 18 USC 2381, provides in relevant part: "Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States ... adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000."

Thanks to the New York Times, the easiest job in the world right now is: "Head of Counterintelligence -- al Qaeda." You just have to read the New York Times over morning coffee, and you're done by 10 a.m.

The greatest threat to the war on terrorism isn't the Islamic insurgency -- our military can handle the savages. It's traitorous liberals trying to lose the war at home. And the greatest threat at home isn't traitorous liberals -- it's patriotic Americans, also known as "Republicans," tut-tutting the quaint idea that we should take treason seriously.

[Diogenesis]

18 U.S.C. §798. Disclosure of Classified Information.
(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information—
(1) concerning the nature, preparation, or use of any code, cipher, or cryptographic system of the United States or any foreign government; or
(2) concerning the design, construction, use, maintenance, or repair of any device, apparatus, or appliance used or prepared or planned for use by the United States or any foreign government for cryptographic or communication intelligence purposes; or
(3) concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government; or
(4) obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government, knowing the same to have been obtained by such processes—Shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. (b) As used in this subsection (a) of this section—
The term “classified information” means information which, at the time of a violation of this section, is, for reasons of national security, specifically designated by a United States Government Agency for limited or restricted dissemination or distribution; .........
The term “communication intelligence” means all procedures and methods used in the interception of communications and the obtaining of information from such communications by other than the intended recipients;
The term “unauthorized person” means any person who, or agency which, is not authorized to receive information of the categories set forth in subsection (a) of this section, by the President, or by the head of a department or agency of the United States Government which is expressly designated by the President to engage in communication intelligence activities for the United States.

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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana

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[bornacatholic]

When Will NYT Reveal One of al Qaeda's Secret Programs?

*What a GREAT question. That question reveals more about the Times than 100 opinion pieces. No wonder the collectivists hate Coulter

Sadly, I don't expect the republicans to fight this treason. Why aren't Frist and Hastert issuing and debating resolutions condemning the Times? Where is Gonzalez? The DOJ ought be Jack Bauering these bastards at an unknown location

[Montfort]

Just imagine an American citizen learning the same info that the NY Slimes learned, and passing it to, say the Syrian Embassy in some country, or directly to a known Al Qaeda sympathizer.

Easy conviction for treason. But the NY Slimes can publish the same information for all the world to see, and we wonder whether we can try them and convict them for treason or some other violation of laws on revealing classified information.

[Fledermaus]

Yet another point made as to why Republicans aren't fit to govern.

[Enchante]

I don't usually care for ultra-lib Jake Tapper, but in this case he had the idea to call up Thomas Kean, Sr. for more of an explanation (see below) of why the US access to SWIFT data was so important and why it was vital to keep it secret. It turns out that, according to what Kean was briefed on, very few people even in the banking world know about SWIFT and how it works, and almost no one would have had any idea that the US was able to get access to this data. So while Al Qaeda and similar terrorists would of course know we were trying to get at their financial transactions, they may well have imagined that they could get away with a lot in Europe and Asia that we wouldn't know about.

Now the NY Slimes has helpfully warned them off..... either the terrorists will be even more careful about not leaving tracks, and/or it may not be long before uproar in the EU, etc. makes it impossible for us to continue to access this data. Either way, we have LOST a vital tool of counter-terrorism thanks to the jihad-loving Pinch Sulzberger butt-boys of the NY Slimes.

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/

KEAN on SWIFT

To help understand the controversy about the New York Times reporting of the CIA/Treasury counterterrorism program that accessed the database of the European banking consortium "Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication," called SWIFT, I phoned up former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, chair of the 9/11 Commission.

What I wanted to understand: what would terrorists and those who wish the US harm know now, with the Friday disclosure of the program, that they wouldn't have already known from the first few weeks after 9/11 WHEN PRESIDENT BUSH ANNOUNCED that the administration would do everything it could to get all data from every bank around the world.

(Bush on 9/24/01:"We're putting banks and financial institutions around the world on notice, we will work with their governments, ask them to freeze or block terrorist's ability to access funds in foreign accounts. If they fail to help us by sharing information or freezing accounts, the Department of the Treasury now has the authority to freeze their bank's assets and transactions in the United States.")

Kean said that when he was briefed by the Treasury Department on the program, "I was told very few people knew about this facility," which provides transaction processing services for over 7,000 financial organizations located in 194 countries worldwide.

"I was told that very few financial houses in this country knew about it; it was not well known even by people in banking," Kean said. "The terrorists didn't know the financial transactions went through this one group. Treasury told me, this was a method of financial tracking that people didn't understand, that nobody knew this was how things were done. Top-notch people in the US didn't even know."

"The second thing is that it took a long time to get this program set up. SWIFT is not US-controlled; we had to persuade them to cooperate, convince them that this was so important to the war on terrorism. It was a great coup when all these other countries agreed to go along."

So for even those terrorists who might know of SWIFT, "the idea of the U.S. and CIA having a tap into it is something people would find impossible to believe."

[omega4412]

But doesn't it say right there in the First Amendment that "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of the press or the right of the press to declassify government documents..."?

[LucyJo]

Excerpted quote from Giving Aid & Comfort -

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1116136/posts


Nixon, in his book The Real War (1980), had this to say:

"The War in Vietnam was not lost on the battlefields of Vietnam. It was lost in the halls of Congress, in the boardrooms of corporations, in the executive suites of foundations, and in the editorial rooms of great newspapers and television networks. It was lost in the salons of Georgetown, and the classrooms of great universities. The class that provided the strong leadership that made victory possible in World War I and World War II failed America in one of the crucial battles of World War III—Vietnam."

[Media Cat]

Yet another classic piece from Ann. She has such a knack for stating the obvious in a new way and of calling a spade a spade but in such a dead on manner. Wish more Republicans had her spine.

[LucyJo]

Meant to ping you to the Nixon quote I used from your "Giving Aid & Comfort.

ping to post #27

[AMHN]

Something tells me we need to close in on those that aid and comfort the NYT.

The NYT Stock Holders....

Has the Secret Financial Data Trial revealed who they are yet?

There's a list that needs to be published...immediately for the sake of National Security and the Public's Need to Know!

[Para-Ord.45]

ping

[Peach]

I read Kean's article/comments on another thread and can see he's not pleased at this leak. Not pleased at all.

[feedback doctor]

Has the slimes ever released the cartoons of moo-ham-head?

[Sam Hill]

I really think that statute was aimed at protecting our communications security (COMSEC) -- our codes, etc.

But the section just above that one definitely applies here:

US Code Title 18, Part I, Chapter 3, § 793

Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information:

(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any… information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it…

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

Though prison really is too good for them.

[Enchante]

Publish those cartoons?? No, of course not, their sacred commitment to the "spirit of the 1st Amendment" stops short of anything that would offend their favored politically correct groups, and of course Pinch Sulzberger might then get hurt by Islamo-fascist freaks, who like to behead some people and blow other people up..... OTOH, anything that undermines the USA in the war on Islamo-fascists is a good thing, and if it can arouse the EU against us and/or be seen to harm the Bush WH then it's even better.

[VOA]

When Will NYT Reveal One of al Qaeda's Secret Programs?

And risk getting their heads sawed off?

Besides, you've got to give the NYTimes and the MSM credit.
They ARE loyal to their friends.

[Marine_Uncle]

You are so right. Poor widdle Rose and Sally where about in the same boat as Mungo in Blazing Saddles as he sat behind bars and told the good sherif he was a pawn in the game of life. The NY Slime are the manipulators. Filth bags. Or would it be more appropriate to call them dirty rotten filth bags?

[Sam Hill]

New York Times Company: Investors: Presentations

Pinch SULZBERGER:

As Bill Keller told our newsroom yesterday as our Pulitzers were awarded: Prizes don't always say anything terribly important about the state of our business, but [t]his year's Pulitzers do, and what they say is: the country has never needed us more than it does today.

http://www.nytco.com/investors-presentations-20060418.html

[reg45]

The NYT will never reveal an Al-Qaeda secret. Al-Qaeda would never allow the NYT access to any of its secrets because the NYT is owned by Jews.

Ironically if A-Q were to take over the US, the staff of the NYT would be among the first to have their heads turned into bowling balls.

[Enchante]

Oh, how I do loathe these pompous self-satisfied boy-humping gasbags..........

So consumed by their own self-importance......

Message to Pinch: you are a pathetic puling product of nepotism who could not have run even a small broken-down whorehouse on your own. The only reason you are in a position to commit treason in these particular ways is that your father did not realize that the only way to deal properly with you would be to exile you to a small island in the South Pacific where you could join a "cargo cult"...... instead they gave you a big newspaper to run into the ground and you are doing a good job at that.