Traitors at New York Times Reveal More Secrets: Payback
Finally the Bush administration is responding to the New York Times for recklessly disclosing a very effective secret tool in combating terrorists.
Published reports revealing a secret government program that tracks money moving in and out of the United States have endangered Americans and undermines the War on Terror, President Bush said Monday.
“The disclosure of this program is disgraceful,” Bush said during a question and answer session with reporters at the White House. “For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America.”
Disclosure “makes it harder to win this War on Terror,” the president said. (snip)
Bush on Monday lashed out at The New York Times report and the leaks that produced it. He said the bank transaction searches are legal, do not violate privacy rights and Congress had been briefed on the program.
“What we were doing was the right thing. Congress was aware of it and we were within the law to do so. The American people expect this government to protect our constitutional liberties and at the same time make sure we understand what the terrorists are trying to do,” Bush said.
The President is right, it is a disgrace when a newspaper with the fading reputation of the New York Times would intentionally hurt the capibility of the US to hunt down terrorists. You can be sure the NYT would be first in line to call for someone’s head in the Bush administration if the US were attacked again. If the US is ever attacked again these arrogant jerks would never realize it was their own treachery which brought down this country. It was their compromising of intelligence which helped our enemies.
Thankfully some in Congress are calling for an investigation into whether the Times violated any laws when they published the secret program. Hopefully, this investigation will not stop until someone in is in jail. Make no mistake about it, America’s ability to protect itself from future attacks has been hampered by this disclosure by the Times Editor. Likewise, Scott Kirwin at the Razor also takes the NYT to task for its decision to publish the secret program:
Bill Keller was not elected by anyone, but he decided it was in your best interest to publish this story. He believes he has the power to make such decisions, yet is accountable to only one man: Arthur Sulzberger, owner of the New York Times. Arthur supports Bill’s new position as de facto leader of the Free World.
Remember that the next time an American dies at the hands of terrorists.
Thanks Bill
Penraker has a response from President Bush’s Press Secretary Tony Snow as he responds to the letter from New York Times editor Bill Keller. It is worth reading.
Update:
John Hawkins at Right Wing News says we should not be going after the ones who published the news that our government is searching the financial world for evidence of the terrorists. Instead, he says we should go after the people who leaked this classified information to the press to begin with.
If the government is allowed to start holding jail time over the heads of members of the press for reporting classified info, we’ll risk tumbling down the slippery slope in a hurry. Government officials hate it when any classified or secret data is revealed, whether it’s related to national security or not, and if they can get away with forbidding the press from printing it, they’ll do so. That would not be in keeping with the First Amendment or in the best interests of the country.
John very well may be right. It is the press as the fourth rail who is supposed to keep the government honest. At one time the press performed admirably. Who can forget the Watergate disclosure? But what is happening now is wrong, totally wrong. Instead of acting responsibly, the New York Times has endangered this country in order to hurt a sitting president. That is totally irresponsible behavior for a body charged with ensuring our liberty. For that matter, it is tremendously irresponsible behavior for any American.
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