[airedale]

They want dead bodies and smoking ruins before they think secrets should be kept. If as a result of their disclosures people die I think these two reporters and Keller, etal should have to individually meet with each of the families and beg their forgives as well as make financial restitution. Then sit in jail for the next 25 years or so.

[Drango]

The fourth estate is a fifth column.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The NY Slimes are just fighting the war against the war on terror.

Truth stolen from Scrappleface and Mr. Ott.

[Berlin_Freeper]

"They were similar in terms of the objections raised not to publish," Lichtblau told E&P today. "That the bad guys knew we were listening to them, but they don't know exactly how." But he said the objections "did not rise to as high a level as last time."


It's insane that we have idiot reporters strutting about as if they are the experts over the Bush administration.

And when America gets hit again do you think they will be sorry for aiding the Terrorists, or will they be blaming President Bush with massive hysterics?

[Darkwolf377]

"I don't think we could reasonably be accused of moving too quickly," he said. "We waited so long that the competition caught up to us." This comment referred to the Los Angeles Times' posting a story about the bank records program on its Web site last night. That paper said it had also been asked by the administration to hold off.

Al Qaeda intelligence collecting sure us a competitive field.

[AmeriBrit]

"We waited so long that the competition caught up to us"

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They could care less about compromising National Security. Their only concern is getting the story out before the competition, regardless of the huge problems it could result in and lives that could be put in danger when we lost a way of tracking the terrorists.

[Darkwolf377]

us = is

[Darkwolf377]

But he said the objections "did not rise to as high a level as last time."

And you basically ignored them last time, so why stop now? It's only the war against terrorists, after all.

Do these people just figure that Al Qaeda is goign to hit a Republican-only target next time? You know, something in "flyover" country, which they don't give a damn about?

If it was MoDowd instead of Barbara Olson who died on 9-11, I think we would see a very different press these days.

[tobyhill]

Lichtblau, save your sorry ass excuse for the Grand Jury and your cell mate when he's got you in the hands to ankle position.

[bootless]

There's SO much wrong with this. But two things stand out: their (dwindling) readership interest dictates everything. There is little to none consideration of what the right thing to do is.

Hell, I'd be interested in reading all sorts of stuff, in my more bored moments. But that doesn't mean that should be published! They're treating their (dwindling) readership like the worn-down parent of a spoiled toddler: it whines for something, so they provide it.

Shameful.

[managusta]

"We waited so long that the competition caught up to us." This comment referred to the Los Angeles Times' posting a story about the bank records program on its Web site last night.

This nugget reveals that whoever "leaked" the story had an agenda and had contacted at least two reporters at two newspapers.

This leak has Mary McCarthy's fingerprints all over it.

[wildcatf4f3]

i sure hope no one decides to take the law into their own hands and hangs this man from a lamppost

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

So, we've got Al Qaida in Iraq and now it's confirmed that we have Al Qaida in New York Times. Al Qaida in Washington Post is also coming on strong.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

[Explorer24]

"We waited so long that the competition caught up to us"

So, just like the dems, it's about competition. It's not about America.

[Lancey Howard]

He noted that there had been no proof that the previous story had endangered national security. "Our belief that it did not have any tangible impact has been borne out," he said.

Huh? How on earth would this scumbag Lickblow know THAT?

[GatorGirl]

OK, I'm not an idiot, so I realize that the purpose of this story and the wiretapping "scandal" story, among others, is to provide fodder for the vile MSM to attempt to sway the sheeple.

That said, I distinctly remember hearing, a while back, news about any financial transactions over a certain number being scrutinized. If you sell your home, that transaction is easily linked to the deposit so it wouldn't raise red flags. But if $30,000.00 suddenly showed up in your account without being traceable to a salary, sale or loan, it would be subject to scrutiny.

In the same vein, I distinctly recall hearing about "Echelon" which would review our emails and telephone calls for certain terminology. This, during the Clinton administration.

When my husband lived overseas, I was acutely aware that our conversations could be monitored, even the non-DSN calls. It never crossed my mind that they would be totally private, as I was placing or receiving international calls to a Middle Eastern country.

It is much ado about NOTHING!!! Why isn't the administration pointing this out, repeatedly!!!

[EDINVA]

"the intense public interest in the NSA story showed that this is obviously a matter of intense public interest."

this guy's really articulate, isn't he ?

[hsalaw]

He noted that there had been no proof that the previous story had endangered national security.

How would he know, the stupid SOB. And why should we wait for proof that our national security has been endangered, anyway? What an a**. No wonder people are turning away from newspapers in droves.

[Diogenesis]

Licorice: "You stupid dhimmis should hang all these seditious traitors
who repeatedly, willfully, and with absolutely NO FEAR, continue to violate 18 U.S.C. §798,
beginning with Keller and Lichtblau, or what is coming will only help the New York Times' circulation."

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18 U.S.C. §798. Disclosure of Classified Information.
(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information—
(1) concerning the nature, preparation, or use of any code, cipher, or cryptographic system of the United States or any foreign government; or
(2) concerning the design, construction, use, maintenance, or repair of any device, apparatus, or appliance used or prepared or planned for use by the United States or any foreign government for cryptographic or communication intelligence purposes; or
(3) concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government; or
(4) obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government, knowing the same to have been obtained by such processes—Shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. (b) As used in this subsection (a) of this section—
The term “classified information” means information which, at the time of a violation of this section, is, for reasons of national security, specifically designated by a United States Government Agency for limited or restricted dissemination or distribution; .........
The term “communication intelligence” means all procedures and methods used in the interception of communications and the obtaining of information from such communications by other than the intended recipients;
The term “unauthorized person” means any person who, or agency which, is not authorized to receive information of the categories set forth in subsection (a) of this section, by the President, or by the head of a department or agency of the United States Government which is expressly designated by the President to engage in communication intelligence activities for the United States.

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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana

[Dems_R_Losers]

"Our belief....has been borne out." What an unbelievably arrogant statement. WHO THE HELL VOTED FOR YOU TO MAKE THIS DECISION???? If I don't agree with your decision as to what has harmed our national security, what do I do about it? Where do I go to vote you out? Who supervises you to make sure your decision is correct? What happens to you if it isn't?

Folks, we are living in a fascist dictatorship now.....not under President Bush and VP Cheney, as the nuts on the left would have us believe....no...the dictators are Eric Lichtblau, James Risen, and Dana Priest....they have declared themselves as the new arbiters of what we have the right to know and what our government is allowed to do in prosecuting a war...

How long are we supposed to put up with this before the revolution?