Posted on 03/07/2006 7:27:01 PM PST by MindBender26
Breaking – Proven reliable sources tell me that in tomorrow morning's edition of the NYT, the leftist paper will reveal that DOD has embedded military rapid reaction teams at a number of US embassies abroad.
The Times is again giving our enemies hard intel they need to be more effective on the worldwide terrorism battlefield.
The concept was very simple; When we got intel that known terrs were operating in a specific area, the US team already in place would be able to snatch them quickly. Because the team is already there, entry problems would be eliminated and reaction time would be much faster. Terrs know how long it takes to get a Delta/SEAL/Snakeeater team out of US or forward area bases and into operational areas, so they know how long they can stay in an area themselves.
Under the new "pre-placement" plan, the reaction time was reduced from days to minutes.
I don't have full details yet, but sources believe not all countries where "pre-placed" teams are located knew they were there. In fact, majority of countries probably did not know small teams of our troops were ready to operate on their ground. Is assumed there were there under civilian cover or perhaps listed as part of the USMC security detachment.
The idea was simple. The snatches would be quick and quiet. Terrs would be removed to other country, possibly Guantanimo, often using business jets borrowed from legitimate US companies, and no one would ever know how or why they disappeared.
Now, thanks to NYT, all is blown!
If this pans out in the headlines today, it's entirely possible my head will explode.
Why isn't Congress looking to change the laws with regard to what the press can publish about our national security secrets? Are Republicans out to lunch?
Thank you.
Waited until NYT Bulldog edition had sent story to press in case wiser heads had pulled story at last minute.
But of course, being the lefties they are.......
Not to America, but certainly our enemies. These traitorous dogs need to be dealt with so they can do no further harm.
Well we know this can't be true now don't we !
I agree, but your printing it ahead of time doesn't help either..... :\
We may be seeing a desperate attempt of the Slimes in trying to avoid future lockup of Pinch, his editors and many so called reporters.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1591431/posts
Expect Journalistic Tongues to Loosen (Jack Kelly)
Real Clear Politics ^ | 3-7-06 | Jack Kelly - Commentary
Posted on 03/06/2006 9:41:50 PM PST by smoothsailing
March 7, 2006
Expect Journalistic Tongues to Loosen
By Jack Kelly
Journalists will be paying rapt attention when Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman go on trial next month for violation of the Espionage Act of 1917.
Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman were officials of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee. They received classified information from Lawrence Franklin, an analyst at the Department of Defense, which they passed on to an Israeli diplomat, and to journalists. They are the first private citizens ever to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act.
Mr. Franklin pled guilty Jan. 20th and was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison, though his sentence could be reduced in exchange for testimony against Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman.
Journalists note there is little difference between what Mr. Rosen and Weissman are accused of doing, and what reporters who have published stories based on leaks of classified information have done, and beads of sweat form on their brows. The chickens hatched when journalists demanded a special prosecutor be appointed in the Valerie Plame case are coming home to roost.
Ms. Plame is the wife of Joseph C. Wilson IV, who earned his 15 minutes of fame when he declared President Bush misled Americans when he said Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium in Africa.
The CIA sent Mr. Wilson to Niger. Journalists wondered why a strident critic of Mr. Bush had been selected for the mission. They were told by, among others, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, then chief of staff to the vice president, that Wilson had been dispatched on the recommendation of his wife, who worked at CIA.
This fueled speculation the Intelligence Identities Protection Act had been violated, since for many years Ms. Plame had worked under cover. Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald promptly subpoenaed journalists. Judith Miller of the New York Times spent several months in jail before fingering Mr. Libby.
"Some government officials are itching to exploit that investigation as a precedent for using the threat of long jail terms and massive fines to force reporters to finger their confidential sources," wrote Stuart Taylor in the National Journal Feb. 27th.
"There's a tone of gleeful relish is the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries," Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, told the Washington Post, which published a lugubrious story about the leak investigations last Sunday.
Two reporters at risk are James Risen of the New York Times, who broke the story of the NSA intercept program, and Dana Priest of the Washington Post, who broke the story of secret CIA prisons in Europe for al Qaida bigwigs. Both relied -- as did Messrs Rosen and Weissman -- on leaks of classified information.
Mr. Risen and his employers may be especially at risk, thanks to the Chicago Tribune.
On June 7th, 1942, the Chicago Tribune published a story revealing the U.S. has advance knowledge of the Japanese assault on Midway Island. The Tribune wasn't prosecuted for this enormous breach of security, for fear of alerting the Japanese, who apparently hadn't noticed their radio codes had been broken. But in 1950, Congress passed a law making it a crime to publish classified information "concerning the communications intelligence activities of the United States."
"What the New York Times has done is nothing less than to compromise the centerpiece of our defensive efforts in the war on terrorism," writes Gabriel Schoenfeld in the current issue of Commentary. "If information about the NSA program had been quietly conveyed to an al Qaida operative on a microdot...there can be no doubt the episode would have been treated by the government as a cut and dried case of espionage. Publishing it for the world to read, the Times has accomplished the same end."
Justice department lawyers think journalists who publish information which damages national security can be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. Case law supports them. In 1985, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held unanimously the Espionage Act applies to "whoever" transmits national defense information "to a person not entitled to receive it."
But it's more likely prosecutors will use the Plame precedent to get journalists to disclose their sources. The NSA leak investigation is said to be moving rapidly, and to focus on two Democratic senators, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Dick Durbin of Illinois.
If Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman are convicted, expect journalistic tongues to loosen.
"This is getting to the point where the entire Times staff should be hauled out of the building and shot."Hmmm,that's tempting/sarc intended.
fyi
Thanks for your service................
Has the NY Times registered as a Political Action Committee yet?
Thank you for yours.
Lets hoPe that the sharp teeth in the Espionage Act are used to shred these a$$holes. Forget trying to get them with treason or sedition. Try them for breaking the Espionage Act Law.
"Has the NY Times registered as a Political Action Committee yet?"
The rarest of human creatures, a conservative lawyer, who used to live and work in the DC area, throughout the 2000 election said the MSM was a PAC tool of the rats. The NY?LA Slimes, Compost, Atlanta Urinal, ChiTribune, Time, Newsweek, and ABCNNBCBS gave Al Goron, basically billions of $'s of free ads, publicity, favorable article/stories and hit pieces against GW during the 2000 presidential election.
Don't you think that this just might be the point!!!!!!!!
The other papers are not revealing secret info, they are not trying to hurt the US in a time of war and lessen our resources that are available for use! The other papers are not committing treason.
>Get off FR....you are part of a small group, who are the TRAITORS WITHIN!<
Come, come, NP. How do you figure? LOL
Close this sucker down. Cease and desist. Put the publisher and his staff in jail. Outrageous idiot traitors.
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