Attorney General Gonzales: Indict the New York Times

The American Thinker ^ | June 24, 2006 | William Lalor

[muawiyah]

When the New York Times announced to the other terrorists how to evade detection by the "Swift program" they then fell within the rules of engagement.

Why they haven't been shot on sight is the real question. This lawyer fellow is a mamby-pamby for asking for nothing more than an indictment of some sort ~ he forgot this is not a criminal matter ~ it's a war ~ and the Times is now among the enemy troops.

[brazzaville]

Good evening.
The classified information disclosed in the Times piece was obtained from unnamed sources alleged to be working for the CIA."

A bloodless purge of the CIA is long over due. At times like this, I'm almost unconcerned about the about the bloodless part.

Michael Frazier

[EBH]

Despite a plea from the Bush Administration...

They need to stop pleading...period. The press has been shut-down before and it needs to happen again. As far as election year politics are concerned, we the people can make this an issue, if we choose too. Freep the AG office, let him here from US.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

I am more interested in who told the NYT about the program.

Me too. That is the big story that is being obscured.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Freep the AG office, let him here from US.

Why is everything the fault of the executive branch? How about we FReep the legislative and the judicial? If this is indeed an infringement on US freedom, the judiciary must weigh in.

[EBH]

Because it is his job to:

To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.

And the AG office is in charge of it all.

[photodawg]

The reporter is like the carbomb driver. The Sulzbergs are the Ayatollahs and Mullahs
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Then what is the leaker? The car bomb? Newspapers are protected by the first amendment on this issue. To convict a publisher you would have to prove direct responsibility.
the publisher doesn't even have to directly approve every piece of information in his publication. The ethical dilemma is not legally enforceable.
There is however, a direct link to illegality in that the leaker had access to classified information which he knowingly gave to an unclassified individual in violation of the law. In this case the NYT is the car bomb, the reporter is the driver and the leaker is the mullah.

[Jameison]

"Newspapers are protected by the first amendment on this issue"

Newspapers are not above the law. They are not protected from from the consequences of committing treason, or passing on classified national security date to our sworn enemies, just because they pass said information througfh their front pages.
Powerline did a series of pieces on this a few months back, and those guys at Powerline sure know their law.

[LowOiL]

I wish the NYslimes would just move to the Middle East and be done with it.

[photodawg]

Why do reporters think that they can't be prosecuted for telling national security info to the world.
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Who was indicted in the valerie plame fiasco? If a reporter is given information by a government official then he has a right, by the first amendment, to publish that information. The person who doesn't have a right to give out the information is the official who has a security clearance as part of his job and then knowingly divulges information to people with no legal right to have access to the information.

[Just A Nobody]

General Casey's briefing has remained a closely held secret, and it was described by American officials who agreed to discuss the details only on condition of anonymity. Word of the briefing comes after a week in which the American troop presence in Iraq was stridently debated in Congress,

This should not be rocket science. Who attended General Casey's briefing? Some "American officials" gave secret information to the NYSlimes. Round them all up and give them lie detector tests. Enough of this crap.

[Humal]

"Its according to what the meaning of classified is?"

Do you mean like "What the meaning of 'is' is", or the level of "classified". I would assume (yeah, I know assuming gets one into trouble ;-), though, that the New York Times doesn't have ANY security clearance and not entitled to any of this information.

[Rembrandt]

I saw a picture with the address of the NY Slimes, it showed 229 but it never showed a street name. Can someone provide me the street name?

Thank you,

Osama

[dangus]

oldtimer2 is not the source of this problem, the source (the American Thinker) is, but this title is wholly inappropriate. This headline appears to say that the attorney general of the United States is calling for the New York Times to be indicted; the colon indicates that it is Gonzales speaking.

[oldtimer2]

The writer is asking the Attorney-General to indict the New York Times.

[jess35]

but what they did was immoral and unethical....but not illegal.

Most people aren't aware of this because the media has decided they are a special class of citizens, but.... it is illegal to knowingly disclose classified information to anyone who doesn't have a right to it. Now the media has taken it upon themselves to decide it is acceptable for them to seek out and publish classified information but it is illegal and we need to see the justice department finally grow a spine and take action.

[Candor7]

Who's telling the NYT all this stuff?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Clinton appointed 5th columnists in the CIA,FBI, military intelligence,Attorney Generals Office, as well as leakers in Interpol, MI5 in Britain and various diplomatic staff, mostly in Europe.Many appointments were made after Dubyah won the election, between November 200 and Dubyah's inauguration.Then Clinton's staff trashed the White House before vacating it. Sleeper demoncraps who say: " Bush shouldn't be president, he cheated in 2000 and again in 2004. That gives us the moral duty to sell out the country, and its "Nazi" military, as well as the conservative majority of the country, who are unenlightened and stupid according to AIDS activists and their running dog Sodomites who suppport Howard the Mean Deaniac, Murtha and the DNC." The Democrap party is a curse on the nation.

Let them and their MSM be in peril of prosecution for their treason.

Dan Rather will feel lucky he resigned and left early before we are done.

[photodawg]

Newspapers are not above the law. They are not protected from from the consequences of committing treason, or passing on classified national security date to our sworn enemies, just because they pass said information througfh their front pages.
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Maybe I should have said , hiding behind the first amendment. I understand the law, the point I was trying but failed to make is that the precedents on this issue are that the press has been given very wide latitude, in this free society, to say what they can factually substantiate regardless of the national security issues. I know this is wrong, but it becomes impossible to legally stop. If we fought this battle which would take years, and lost on first amendment issues the results would be carte blanche making the situation even worse. That's why I believe the prosecution of the leaker through the reporter is the way to go. Jail the reporter until he reveals his source. then prosecute the leaker. None of these spinless traitors would go to jail on principle for very long. Once a leaker or two faced a 10 year bid, this b.s. would stop.

[SE Mom]

Bingo- go after em with the gloves off.

[mware]

Peter King is going to announce on Fox News Sunday that he will call on the Attorney General to institute a criminal prosecution of the New York Times, under the Espionage Act and the Comint Act