We killed the Patriot Act.
Posted on 08/11/2006 6:45:30 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim
…yet the editors at the NY Times did not herald that success. Instead, they accused people of playing politics. Did they complain that Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, said:
“This latest plot demonstrates the need for the Bush administration and the Congress to change course in Iraq and ensure that we are taking all the steps necessary to protect Americans at home and across the world.”
No, instead, in an editorial, the NY Times complained that Vice President Cheney responded by saying that within the Democratic ranks:
“…there’s a significant body of opinion that wants to go back — I guess the way I would describe it is sort of the pre-9/11 mind-set, in terms of how we deal with the world we live in.”
Nowhere in its news reporting or editorials so far has the NY Times repeated this report (yesterday’s) from the Times of London:
“Britain’s MI-5 intelligence service and Scotland Yard had been tracking the plot for several months, but only in the past two weeks had the plotters’ planning begun to crystallize, senior U.S. officials tell TIME. In the two or three days before the arrests, the cell was going operational, and authorities were pressed into action. MI5 and Scotland Yard agents tracked the plotters from the ground, while a knowledgeable American official says U.S. intelligence provided London authorities with intercepts of the group’s communications.”
Instead, the editors at the NY Times this morning say:
“Here is what we want to do in the wake of the arrests in Britain. We want to understand as much as possible about what terrorists were planning. To talk about airport security and how to make it better. To celebrate what worked in the British investigation and discuss how to push these efforts farther. It would be a blessed moment in modern American history if we could do that without turning this into a political game plan.”
We have something foreign to the NY Times: news. And the news is:
“…The plot was foiled because a large number of people were under surveillance concerning their spending, travel and communications.”
The Wall Street Journal editors went on to say:
“Which leads us to wonder if Scotland Yard would have succeeded if the ACLU or the New York Times had first learned the details of such surveillance programs. … “In short, Democrats who claim to want “focus” on the war on terror have wanted it fought without the intelligence, interrogation and detention tools necessary to win it. And if they cite “cooperation” with our allies as some kind of magical answer, they should be reminded that the British and other European legal systems generally permit far more intrusive surveillance and detention policies than the Bush Administration has ever contemplated. … “The real lesson of yesterday’s antiterror success in Britain is that the threat remains potent, and that the U.S. government needs to be using every legal tool to defeat it. At home, that includes intelligence and surveillance and data-mining, and abroad it means all of those as well as an aggressive military plan to disrupt and kill terrorists where they live so they are constantly on defense rather than plotting to blow up U.S.-bound airliners .”
What needs stopped is the New York Times playing politics by deliberately leaking classified information that undermines the current administration’s efforts to protect us from further terrorist attacks. What needs stopped is the New York Times playing politics by deliberately leaking classified information that undermines the current administration’s efforts to protect us from further terrorist attacks. Here’s How YOU Can Help and if you are a New York Times Company investor, Help Drive it Down.
That slimey rag is doing everything it can to help the terrorist win such as telling them we listen in to their phone conversations is just one example.
Connect-the-dots ping
Very good analysis of the situation.
Its simple...Republicans protect Americans and the West....Democrats protect the terrorists...
We killed the Patriot Act.
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Good catch. Need to be posted, and re-posted, and re-posted, and used in every campaign commercial the Republicans ever run.
and so what is the Dem response... Note how little is on the air waves of Dems on the record...
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