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LA Times Bureau Chief Admits That Its Reporting Could Help Terrorists
NewsBusters.org ^ | 26 June 2006 | Dave Pierre

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hughhewitt; latimes; losangelestimes; pinchpinch
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1 posted on 06/26/2006 7:44:25 PM PDT by infoguy
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To: infoguy

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.


2 posted on 06/26/2006 7:47:40 PM PDT by garyhope
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To: infoguy
The next murders of Americans are brought to you by the LA Times and the New York Times.

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


3 posted on 06/26/2006 7:48:47 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: garyhope

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.


4 posted on 06/26/2006 7:51:06 PM PDT by tina07 (In Memory of my Father - WWII Army Air Force Veteran)
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To: infoguy

It would appear that he admited to an act of treason.


5 posted on 06/26/2006 7:51:15 PM PDT by cpdiii (Socialism is popular with the ruling class. It gives legitimacy to tyranny and despotism.)
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To: infoguy
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



Bring back the sedition act
6 posted on 06/26/2006 7:52:29 PM PDT by Number57
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To: infoguy

Just.. wow.


7 posted on 06/26/2006 7:53:01 PM PDT by Darksheare (This is a test of the emergency tagline system. Had there been an emergency, you would have heard...)
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To: infoguy

F the Times, F the MSM.


8 posted on 06/26/2006 7:53:23 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: infoguy

Where is the rope?


9 posted on 06/26/2006 7:53:26 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: infoguy
 
 
The Times's publisher, Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr ... was a sixties anti-war activist who famously declared that in a confrontation between an American and a North Vietnamese soldier he'd want to see the American get shot."
 
 
 
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10 posted on 06/26/2006 7:53:32 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: infoguy
Several active duty have written that fellow military have been killed as a result of leaks. All of the elected officials who claim to "support the troops" can prove it by doing their duty and demand that the leakers and publishers of classified info be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
11 posted on 06/26/2006 7:54:30 PM PDT by ketchikan (will our elected officials stand up for the troops)
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Let's send Jack Bauer to find out who leaked. It appears we are plagued with treasonous spies in the beaurocracy.


12 posted on 06/26/2006 7:58:02 PM PDT by arjay (I would rather be right than consistent.)
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To: infoguy
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.

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.

13 posted on 06/26/2006 7:58:32 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: infoguy

More terrorism means more easy stories for the Times


14 posted on 06/26/2006 7:58:43 PM PDT by donmeaker (If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy" then my ex wife is out of town.)
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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.


15 posted on 06/26/2006 8:00:55 PM PDT by msnimje (There is no way we can lose if we stay in Iraq and no way we can win if we cut and run.)
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To: ketchikan

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.


16 posted on 06/26/2006 8:01:08 PM PDT by gaspar
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To: Number57
"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."

What he no doubt wanted to say was "I hope so."

17 posted on 06/26/2006 8:11:04 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: george76

love the pics ...


18 posted on 06/26/2006 8:11:56 PM PDT by infoguy (www.frankenlies.com ... www.themediareport.com ...)
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To: ketchikan
"Several active duty have written that fellow military have been killed as a result of leaks. "

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?

19 posted on 06/26/2006 8:15:43 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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"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.


20 posted on 06/26/2006 8:41:04 PM PDT by hellbender
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