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Former Attorney General Ed Meese - Times' Intel Revelations Giving "Aid And Comfort To The Enemy"
Pipeline News ^ | June 26, 2006

Posted on 06/26/2006 3:02:27 PM PDT by april15Bendovr

Former Attorney General Ed Meese - Times' Intel Revelations Giving "Aid And Comfort To The Enemy" Suggesting Treason

June 26, 2006 - Washington, DC - PipeLineNews.org - Interviewed on today's Rush Limbaugh show former AG Meese - who has been contacted by New York Congressman Peter King in his efforts to bring legal action against the New York Times - blasted the liberal newspaper.

Meese stated that last thursdays outing by the paper of the "Swift" financial tracking system employed by the CIA and the Treasury Dept. to track financial activity by al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups was its "the third offense."

Mr. Meese then outlined the three offenses - the revelation of the existence of the NSA program to track al-Qaeda communication, the outing of the logging of phone records within the same program and lastly the publishing of the details of the "Swift" financial tracking operation.

Meese stated "in each case they [the New York Times] were putting the enemy on notice," adding that such activity gives "aid and comfort to the enemy."

This is the classic definition of treason going back at least 600 years, to Britain's Treason Act of 1351, which defines high treason, in part as:

"or be adherent to the King’s enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm..."


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: edmeese; nyt; sedition; swift
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Anyone catch this today?
1 posted on 06/26/2006 3:02:31 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: april15Bendovr

Do you have a contact for Mr. Meese? Let's all encourage him to talk to the administration and lend his support for prosecuting the Times.


2 posted on 06/26/2006 3:04:16 PM PDT by pissant
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To: april15Bendovr

Unfortunately, no one's about to attempt to even slap the NYT's wrist, much less prosecute them. The NYT probably has dirt on just about every congress critter to insure their silence.


3 posted on 06/26/2006 3:06:25 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: april15Bendovr
I heard the interview but I cant remember the gentleman's name from Detroit who covered for Rush. He might be able to contact Ed Meese
4 posted on 06/26/2006 3:09:58 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: april15Bendovr

Blah blah blah - and in the end, nothing will be done. It's just the same old, same old, and the Times knows it.


5 posted on 06/26/2006 3:13:27 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Man was made in the image of God, not pond scum)
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To: april15Bendovr

Maybe this is being done all wrong. Perhaps returning soldiers should be shown a list of names of comrades who died, with a disclaimer: " These fellows died as a result of the publishing of these articles by XXX. We feel for your loss, and just thought you should know the factors responsible for their deaths...."


6 posted on 06/26/2006 3:16:13 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: reagan_fanatic

Where is Charles Bronson or the Star Chamber when you need them?


7 posted on 06/26/2006 3:20:05 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: april15Bendovr

Put the Times on the terrorist watch list and declare them as enemy combatants. Using information to aid the enemy means they support the enemy and enemy propagandist are just as lethal as an enemy with a gun.


8 posted on 06/26/2006 3:25:55 PM PDT by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: Cementjungle

If the NYT had dirt on Republicans, you can bet they have already used it. But your point is probably true just the same. Newspapers have a valuable cash equivalent thing to bribe with: focus and opinion. They don't have to have real dirt to imply and distort. Doubt and suspicion can kill a reputation, especially if it is repeated often enough.


9 posted on 06/26/2006 3:26:42 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: tobyhill

We should all cancel our subsci....er...nevermind.

For fun I like to round up a lot of their subscription litter and send them in un-filled. My way of supporting recycling.


10 posted on 06/26/2006 3:28:24 PM PDT by samadams2000
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To: april15Bendovr
We shouldn't be relying on the government to prosecute. It's time for the AMERICAN PEOPLE to stand up to the NY Slimes. An angry mob of pitchforks, tar and feathers ought to do just fine.

Hey Sulzberger and Keller, look out your window:

+ + = REAL JUSTICE for TRAITORS.

11 posted on 06/26/2006 3:30:18 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: april15Bendovr
They are not giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

They are the enemy.

Their mission is to destroy the President of the United States by any and all means.

12 posted on 06/26/2006 3:32:27 PM PDT by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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Canceling subscriptions hasn't fazed the idiots down there so far so the only other option is criminal charges on anything the feds can gather up on them.
13 posted on 06/26/2006 3:33:27 PM PDT by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

What, if Bush goes after the Times they might give him a bad press?

That shouldn't cut any ice. The MSM could hardly do a bigger smear job on Bush and the Republicans than they are already doing.


14 posted on 06/26/2006 3:54:16 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: tobyhill

Anyone with a grain of sense and decency already cancelled their subscriptions to the Times many years ago. It's an empty threat.


15 posted on 06/26/2006 3:55:13 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Well that's a good point. LOL! What was I thinking. Bush won't do it anyway. He kinda likes to be run over.


16 posted on 06/26/2006 4:11:45 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: april15Bendovr

The NYT's infliction of harm or choking on soldiers in Iraq will find out that they are well trained to fight while others try to choke them...

This business will be taken care of, and all debts will be paid one way or another.

The NYT might as well either curl up and die or just shoot themselves in the head outright.


17 posted on 06/26/2006 4:39:21 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Condemn me, make me naked and kill me, or be silent for ever on my gun ownership and law enforcement)
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To: april15Bendovr
This is the classic definition of treason going back at least 600 years, to Britain's Treason Act of 1351, which defines high treason, in part as:

"or be adherent to the King’s enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm..."

Right!. And in those days the punishment was hanging and disembowelment, or maybe it was being drawn and quartered. In any case, either will work fine for the perps.

18 posted on 06/26/2006 6:10:26 PM PDT by Mogollon
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To: Mogollon

Treason Act of 1351 (c 2)

Declaration what offences shall be adjudged treason (as in force today)

Item, whereas divers opinions have been before this time in what case
reason shall be said, and in what not; the King, at the request of the lords
and of the commons, hath made a declaration in the manner as hereafter
followeth, that is to say; when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our
lord the King, or of our lady his Queen or of their eldest son and heir; or if a
man do violate the King's companion, or the King's eldest daughter unmarried, or
the wife the King's eldest son and heir; or if a man do levy war against our
lord the King in his realm, or be adherent to the King's enemies in his realm,
giving to them aid and comfort in the realm, or elsewhere, and thereof be
probably attainted of open deed by the people of their condition:. . . and if a
man slea the chancellor, treasurer, or the King's justices of the one bench or
the other, justices in eyre, or justices of assise, and all other justices
assigned to hear and determine, being in their places, doing their offices: and
it is to be understood, that in the cases above rehearsed, that ought to be
judged treason which extends to our lord the King, and his royal majesty:. .


19 posted on 06/26/2006 7:46:31 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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To: Mogollon
Penalty was death


20 posted on 06/26/2006 7:54:53 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
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