Posted on 08/21/2009 9:05:49 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
Why would the New York Times divulge information that could prove harmful to the national security of the United States? Is it so consumed is it by hatred of anything outside their left wing agenda that the paper actually wants America to lose the war on terror. One case in point was an article the Times published on June 30, 2008, Amid U.S. Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan, which quoted from a "highly-classified Pentagon order" describing internal disputes at the Pentagon over plans to capture Osama Bin Laden and defeat al Qaeda.
In June 2006, both The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times published a story based on a leak regarding the government's pressure on SWIFT a Brussels-based clearinghouse that exchanges transactional information between international banks to give up information on private bank transactions as part of U.S. global anti-terror efforts.The stories drew immediate fire from the White House and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y, then-chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, who called the leak and subsequent publishing of the program's details treasonous.
Now they reveled another US state secret.
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
To me, this is bigger than the NYT or LATimes spewing ‘state secrets’...
There are ‘rats’ within the State Department, the Pentagon, CIA and FBI that should be found, made public, and then summarily destroyed/executed/removed.
Franklin D Roosevelt was confined to a wheelchair for the entire 12 years that he was in office. Each of these papers existed back then and each of them was able to keep this basic fact a secret.
AARGH!!!
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