The NYT's national insecurity
I think it is safe to say the New York Times is against America in the War on Terror. After yet another national security leak by Times writers Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, we see where they place their support. It's definitely not with the U.S. government in their goals to protect American citizens.So who or what exactly are they supporting? Bill Keller, The New York Times' executive editor suggested the publishing of this information was "a matter of public interest." To which I ask, which public are you referring to Mr. Keller? Certainly not the American public, which has overwhelmingly supported the President's NSA counter-terrorism efforts.
If a program is designed to protect Americans and you leak it, effectively ruining the program, who's getting protected? My guess is Mr. Keller and the rest of the Times staff who's butts are puckering at the thought of lower and lower circulation numbers. But circulation is more important these days than, say, tracking terror funding in international bank transactions.
Michelle Malkin has most of the details and is asking you graphic-geeks to submit art.
Here's some video from Tony Snow on the bank-surveillance expose
And here is a great read by Andy McCarthy with the National Review:
The Media's War Against the War Continues
The effort, which the government calls the “Terrorist Finance Tracking Program” (TFTP), is entirely legal. There are no conceivable constitutional violations involved. The Supreme Court held in United States v. Miller (1976) that there is no right to privacy in financial-transaction information maintained by third parties. Here, moreover, the focus is narrowed to suspected international terrorists, not Americans, and the financial transactions implicated are international, not domestic. This is not data mining, and it does not involve fishing expeditions into the financial affairs of American citizens. Indeed, few Americans even have information that is captured by the program — though there would be nothing legally offensive even if they did.
You see my friends, this is a great example of how far out of touch most of the MSM has become with ordinary American citizens. To start, the NY and LA Times are accessories to the felony being committed by the Intelligence official who is leaking this info in the first place. There are reasons our military and government have certain levels of clearance and if you dishonor that clearance, you go to jail. In the Times case it's the moral equivalency of someone who is charged with accessory to murder. I know these cats are smart enough to know this, but they disregard the basic principals of law for the sake of higher ratings.
But even beyond the element of assisting in the treasonous act of leaking classified Intel, the Times disregards basic civil security. And this is even harder to imagine coming from a newspaper based not very far from where terrorists committed their most heinous act. One has to ask, are these guys serious? Obviously not.
Here's a sentence that was submitted to the Times from pissed off reader Arch A.:
Good God, don't you have any recollection of the horror visited on your city and the nation's capitol not so long ago by the very people this surveillance program targets?
The Times has turned our national security into a propaganda game against a President they vehemently despise. To them, leaking something that could hurt Bush is more important than protecting Americans. Which gets back to the basic principal of national security. The NY and LA Times have drawn their lines in the sand and have decided that national security must be compromised so Americans can see what the NSA and our President are doing in this War on Terror. As The Citizen Journal states, nothing is sacred when newspaper money is on the line....not even American lives.
Iowa Voice points out their ulterior motives...
Interesting thing, the press asked a bunch of questions about this new financial spying "scandal" (ooooh, how they wish that were true!), and barely a peep about the terror arrests in Miami. In other words, if they don't report that, they can push it off the front page and not give credit to the Bush Administration or Republicans for actually protecting this country.
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If "public interest" is what the NY and LA Times want, let's tell them what we think!