Indicting the NYT

The American Thinker ^ | 9-29-06 | Thomas Lifson

[Renfield]

Henry Mark Holzer, writing in Front Page Magazine, makes the very strong case that the New York Times will be indicted for violating the Espionage Act for publication of details helpful to the enemy in the story of wiretapping of internatrional phone calls involving an American end of the conversation.

I won’t bother to recapitulate his points because he makes them concisely and you should follow the link.

Should indictments be brought, the resulting prosecution and possible trial (I don’t rule out plea agreements once the defendants grasp the prison terms awaiting them and the strength of the case against them) will be a turning point in domestic politics and public opinion.

Liberals will no doubt scream that fascism has arrived in America. I do not rule out a resort to terrorism by the lunatic fringe. The Unabomber sorts. I hope they are few in number and equally isolated.

If that happens, watch for public opinion to turn on the left with fury.

Other outcomes are also possible. A clumsy case could weaken support for necessary anti-terror measures.

But if Holzer is right (and I trust his judgment), we are in for some real fireworks. And Pinch Sulzberger’s problems in destroying his family company’s value will be the least of his worries.

Hat tip: Ed Lasky

Thomas Lifson 9 29 06

[Renfield]

I've been waiting for this for a very long time.......

[Renfield]

Link to original article in Front Page Mag:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24646

[PhiKapMom]

Is this the October surprise?

[Renfield]

Let's hope!

[Michael.SF.]

This will help unify both sides and place focus on the WOT just before the election.

How Rovian.

WEG

[stm]

I'm waiting for the "THIS SPACE FOR RENT" sign to be posted on their front door.

[Lowell]

This administratiion just does not have the balls to do it

[Renfield]

There's also this, from The American Thinker:

NYT view of Tokyo Rose: "Exemplary"



Praise for a traitor. What’s next from Pinch Sulzberger’s paper?

While one might argue that there should be qualms in considering her a “traitor” given the circumstances of being trapped in Japan at an inopportune time (and having to make a living there), can a paper honestly devote precious editorial space to honor someone who propagandized on behalf of the enemy during war?

If one is talking about her post World War 2 “career” she did nothing exceptional to justify praise by the Times. She did not work with the poor, help rehabilitate wounded vets, work in the USO, or other honorable endeavors to redeem her name. A redemption that only the New York Times sees fit to propose.

What next in a few years? An editorial calling for a pardon for John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban?

Don’t laugh.

Ed Lasky 9 29 06

Link to NY Times' shameful article: http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/opinion/29fri4.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&OP=79a9ca07Q2FQ25NcHQ25jQ3CD6sQ3CQ3CQ7BQ7CQ25Q7CddEQ25dQ3DQ25Q7CQ3DQ25Q3CQ2BpQ27pQ3CQ27Q25Q7CQ3DhspeQ7ERQ7Bao

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Absentee president.

[Izzy Dunne]

the New York Times will be indicted

"Should be"? I've heard that.

"Could be"? I've heard that.

But "Will be"? That's a new one!

[Panzerlied]

Frankly I doubt it. The NYT is doing an exemplary job of making itself insolvent, so why bother giving the moonbats a rallying point?

[Nathan Zachary]

I would be very happy to see the NYT finally recieve justice for it's treasonous acts.
But I won't hold my breath.

[stm]

This guy does......

[johnny7]

From the FrontPage article:

“Several years ago Erika Holzer and I wrote a book entitled “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam, which proved that her conduct in Hanoi made her indictable for, and convictable of, treason.  We discovered that she was not indicted because of a political failure of will by the Nixon administration.”

So I guess the same could be said for Jean Francois Kerry... and his meetings in Paris with the Viet Cong. 

[Hugin]

I would love to see Pinchy Salzberger given the perpwalk on TV while the CNN commentators go into meltdown.

[wastedyears]

Down with the NYSlimes?

[TChris]

[SkyPilot]

He is also gay.

[Ukiapah Heep]

What next in a few years? An editorial calling for a pardon for John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban?

Take that to the bank!

[wastedyears]

I like it!!!

[Jack Black]

I'll believe it when I see it. Not gonna happen.

[gcruse]

"makes the very strong case that the New York Times will be indicted"

My grandpappy was so right when he said of newspapers (and this applies to the internet too), "When they start talking in the future tense, you can stop reading."

Bush didn't have the cojones to go after the NYT before, and he doesn't now.

[Lowell]

This administratiion just does not have the balls to do it

[synbad600]

The Slimes will spill their guts re: sources is my guess, if faced with serious punishment.

[cwb]

"He is also gay"

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Ahh, that must be one of them new Gay bathrooms--with enough toliet paper for everybody. And who the heck get's their picture taken in a bathroom.

[Young Werther]

Behind him are the latest editorials waiting to be "flushed" to the presses!

[wildbill]

A conservative version of the tooth fairy con. Do not believe that the DOJ will leave an indictment under your pillow, just because the law says they can--or should.

There is not now, and never will be, a department of justice that will have the moral courage to indict the NYT editors, no matter what the provocation or the law.

Oh, and there's no Santa Claus either folks.

[jordan8]

It won't happen and it shouldn't happen. It would be a fiasco for the Republicans.

[toddlintown]

"This administratiion just does not have the balls to do it"

I hope you're wrong but I'm not holding my breath.

[SkyPilot]

And who the heck get's their picture taken in a bathroom.

Gay men.