Posted on 12/17/2005 4:49:11 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Sen. Accuses Times of Endangering U.S.
5 minutes ago
A Republican senator on Saturday accused The New York Times of endangering American security to sell a book by waiting until the day of the terror-fighting Patriot Act reauthorization to report that the government has eavesdropped on people without court-approved warrants.
"At least two senators that I heard with my own ears cited this as a reason why they decided to vote to not allow a bipartisan majority to reauthorize the Patriot Act," said Republican Sen. John Cornyn (news, bio, voting record) of Texas. "Well, as it turns out the author of this article turned in a book three months ago and the paper, The New York Times, failed to reveal that the urgent story was tied to a book release and its sale by its author."
Cornyn did not name the senators in his remarks on the Senate floor.
A call to The New York Times' Washington bureau was referred to spokeswoman Catherine Mathis, who could not be reached immediately.
Times reporter James Risen, who wrote the story, has a book "State of WAR: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration," coming out in the next few weeks, Cornyn said.
"I think it's a crying shame ... that we find that America's safety is endangered by the potential expiration of the Patriot Act in part because a newspaper has seen fit to release on the night before the vote on the floor on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act as part of a marketing campaign for selling a book," Cornyn said.
Since October 2001, the super-secret National Security Agency has, without court-approved warrants, eavesdropped on the international phone calls and e-mails of people inside the United States.
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It's about time someone spoke out. I think we need a special prosecutor to go after the leaker, whoever it might be.
Ooooo, it's time someone was nailed!
I wouldn't mind seeing "Vice President Cornyn" in a GOP administration in 2008.
The more I see of this Senator, the more I like him.
Well, why the hell not? Git 'er done for crying out loud. Bust the senatorial country club and do some asskicking.
House member...Lynn Woolsey is up on the House floor, right this second crying about the New York Times story...
She is just crying and wailing about how she doesn't recognize her own country...."secret gulags" in Europe, and a vice president that is personally lobbying for the right to torture detainees...no privacy rights, in favor of the most intrusive totalitarian tactics ever known""....
Just a sample of what is being said about the wiretapping...
This is a highly classified program that is crucial to our national security. ... Yesterday the existence of this secret program was revealed in media reports, after being improperly provided to news organizations. As a result, our enemies have learned information they should not have, and the unauthorized disclosure of this effort damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk. Revealing classified information is illegal, alerts our enemies, and endangers our country.
Nail the red rag to the wall!
Sorry but the real crying shame is that any Senator would base his vote on something that he read that morning in the NYT. These aren't men or women, they are children.
"Sorry but the real crying shame is that any Senator would base his vote on something that he read that morning in the NYT. These aren't men or women, they are children."
You said it.. God help us.
Of course, that lying dirtbag was going to vote NO anyway.
Yep. The Senatorial Country Club is a good name for it. What is more important, the security of this nation or the good old boy, screw the other party and the American people? Time for a change. Lott not running again is a step in the right direction IMHO.
Which Democratic Senators were working with the Slimes on the publishing and timing of this "story?"
You and me both -- I have liked Cornyn from day one and he just gets better and better!
Truth be known the Democrats are releasing all kind of enfo that will help the terrorist. The Democrat Party in my opinion is fast becoming an enemy of our country and a threat to National Security.Of course this is only one mans opinion.>
From W's radio address today:
This is a highly classified program that is crucial to our national security. ... Yesterday the existence of this secret program was revealed in media reports, after being improperly provided to news organizations. As a result, our enemies have learned information they should not have, and the unauthorized disclosure of this effort damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk. Revealing classified information is illegal, alerts our enemies, and endangers our country"
The look in his eyes...some heads are gonna roll.
Truth be known the Democrats are releasing all kind of enfo that will help the terrorist. The Democrat Party in my opinion is fast becoming an enemy of our country and a threat to National Security.Of course this is only one mans opinion.>
I've been interested in politics for many a decade and never ever have I seen such a total lack of regard for national security.
The NYSlimes was always blatantly anti American but never were the members of the democrat party so blatantly in opposition of our safety.
Cornyn has twice the balls as hutchinson....
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