Posted on 05/12/2015 3:59:33 PM PDT by Starman417
The New York Times, even to this day, remains "America's newspaper". But why?!
The latest brouhaha scandalous decision made by the newspaper involves the outing of 3 CIA officials in wake of reporting that two innocent hostage lives were taken in a drone attack. In response, 20 former senior CIA leaders penned a blistering response to the NYTimes Executive Editor Dean Baquet after he defended his paper's decision to name names. The former CIA officials rebuked:
Officials who work on covert operations do not escape accountability. Their actions are carefully reviewed by the C.I.A.’s general counsel, the inspector general, White House officials, congressional overseers and Justice Department attorneys. Indeed, some of the operations referred to by The Times have been discussed publicly by the president and are some of the most carefully overseen in our government.We respect the right of The Times to investigate and report on the government’s counterterrorism efforts. The media should question policy makers, including senior politically appointed leaders of the intelligence community, about these efforts.
But nothing is gained by “outing” career operations officers, who carry out such policies. They operate in the shadows, not because they want to; indeed, a life under cover can be enormously burdensome to family and loved ones. They operate in the shadows because we still need a small cadre of professionals who, when called upon, can operate in secret to protect the country.
These patriot lives are put in danger, as they have been directly involved in the war against jihadi and Islamist terror:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Bkmrk.
But, but . . . . Valerie Plame!
mark
When “the press” is no longer the press, but an unofficial government entity that offers nothing but biased/purchased opinions on events of the day, are they still entitled to protections under the first amendment? I say “no”. Who will go after a society-destroying, riot inciting, libelous media?
The CIA leadership, exposes the NYT as low life scum.
Neither one is trustworthy in the slightest.
The NYTimes is a hate group.
hasn’t been a Grey Lady in a very long time.... now just an Old Grey Whore.
Exactly.
‘What we do is morally indefensible, and absolutely necessary’.
Both the CIA and NYT use this operating philosophy.
But I still have trust there are lingering old-school pro-Americans and their mentees at CIA, which was never the case at NYT.
Exactly... Who at the NYT is going to jail for outing a CIA agent?
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