Posted on 06/26/2006 7:44:22 PM PDT by infoguy
In a remarkable interview on the Hugh Hewitt radio show this afternoon (Mon. June 26, 2006), Doyle McManus, Washington D.C. bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, publicly admitted that the column in his paper on Friday, the one in which a secret financial tracking program was reported, could aid terrorists who target the United States. The original column was written by Josh Meyer and Greg Miller, but McManus played a role in the decision to go forward with the story's publication.
The eye-opening interview, with audio, is at Radio Blogger. The key exchange:
HUGH HEWITT: Is it possible, in your view, Doyle McManus, that the story will in fact help terrorists elude capture?
DOYLE McMANUS: It is conceivable, yeah, although it might be worth noting that in our reporting, officials told us that this would, this disclosure would probably not affect al Qaeda, which figured out long ago that the normal banking system was not how it ought to move its money, and so turned to other unofficial and informal channels ...
Later ...
HEWITT: Did anyone who would go on the record tell you this would have no significant damage to the counter-terrorism effort?
McMANUS: I don't believe anyone made that unqualified statement, no.
HEWITT: Given that you couldn't find anyone to tell you that it wouldn't be damaging, wouldn't the necessary conclusion be that it would be?
McMANUS: That's a reasonable inference. But we did...there were people who told us that they believed that the damage, if any, would be minimal.
"Minimal"? As opposed to ...
And the closer:
HEWITT: Sgt. T.F. Boggs, who's serving in Iraq on his second tour, sent a letter to Mr. Keller after the story published at the New York Times, in which he included the line, "Thank you for continually contributing to the deaths of my fellow soldiers." He, and many other mil-bloggers, are as angry as they can be, and they believe that these stories, yours among them, have contributed to the death of Americans and the empowerment of terrorists. I want you to have a chance to respond before you've got to leave, Mr. McManus.
McMANUS: Well, I respect Sgt. Boggs, and I respect what he's doing for our country. I think accusing newspapers of causing the deaths of soldiers over the last several years because of a story that was printed last week probably adds more heat than light to this discussion.
Good grief. Check out this interview.
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Also ... The great LA Times watchdog Patterico has his thoughts on another radio interview that McManus conducted today. Check it out.
Imagine it's the middle of WWII and this POS did this. What would have happened to him?
What part of Islamofascism do these people not understand?
Perhaps a nuke in NYC, LA or DC would give them a hint?
Nah, still Bush's fault.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the only way California will get it is if they get hit, then it will matter.
It would appear that he admited to an act of treason.
Just.. wow.
F the Times, F the MSM.
Where is the rope?
Let's send Jack Bauer to find out who leaked. It appears we are plagued with treasonous spies in the beaurocracy.
Clever, but that wasn't what the Sergeant said. He was talking about a history of collusion on the part of the media with the terrorists, of which this incident is only a current example, and he was absolutely correct.
When this is said and done a real, no-holds-barred examination of the degree to which the media have allowed their anti-Bush passion to cause genuine and lasting damage to the country needs to be held...but it won't be in the pages of the LA Times or the NY Times. They'll be too busy awarding one another Pulitzer prizes for being brave and independent.
More terrorism means more easy stories for the Times
These newspaper editors are no better than the terrorists. If innocent people get hurt in the pursuit of their political goals that is okay with them.
Hewitt turned McManus inside-out. The worm basically admitted that once the NYTimes printed its article it was Katie bar the door. In other words, ethics, and certainly patriotism, played no part in this. McManus is a disgrace. To his nation and to himself.
DOYLE McMANUS: "It is conceivable."
What he no doubt wanted to say was "I hope so."
love the pics ...
Yeah, yeah. But the important thing is, who told that reporter that Valerie Plame used to work undercover years ago before marrying that little weasel and taking a 9-to-5 desk job?
"McMANUS: Well, I respect Sgt. Boggs, and I respect what he's doing for our country. I think accusing newspapers of causing the deaths of soldiers over the last several years because of a story that was printed last week probably adds more heat than light to this discussion."
This is precisely the kind of legalistic, weaselly language liberal intellectuals are so good at. They learn this kind of twisting of the truth, along with other tricks of applied Marxism, in their elitist government-subsidized schools.
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