Posted on 06/27/2006 6:34:12 AM PDT by cloud8
Prosecute The New York Times and censure Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.)? I have a better idea: Sit back and watch them self-destruct.
Murtha and The New York Times have done more to aid the fight for Republicans to retain their House and Senate majorities in the last couple of days than Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman could possibly do all year.
But no one, not even the guys who are so devoted to the GOP that they wear elephants on their ties, should be cheering.
What has been lost by Murtha’s rantings and the Times’ irresponsibility can never be regained by electoral victory in the fall. But nor will they regain what they have lost by their own words and actions - the moral high ground.
Let’s start with the Times. We are less safe today from terrorist attack than we were before the Times disclosed the existence of the National Security Agency’s terrorist surveillance program.
We are more in danger today because The New York Times and other outlets disclosed that American intelligence has access to foreign banking transactions.
Combined, these two programs gave American officials tools they did not have before Sept. 11 to track and disrupt terrorist plots before thousands die.
By the Times’ own admission, the “penetration” into international banking networks helped track down the Bali bombers.
How many more innocent young lives were saved, as a result, from a similar fate in other discos in other terrorist strongholds or, as possible, in a nightclub in New York?
Before the Times revealed the two security programs, literally in black and white, al-Qaeda and its allies did not know, could no know for sure, how best to avoid detection.
They know now.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
NYT Next Pulitzer: We are da Bomb!
It can never happen again. Iraq will not be another Vietnam because we won't let it happen again.
God Bless you and keep you Soldier! Thank you for your service to our country, for without men (yes - MEN not boys or kids) like you, we would surely fall.
BTTT
The more I hear about this "Times" disclosure the more I am unimpressed.
1st of all, the President said he would use all means to get at the terrorists; financial, telephonic, electronic, foreign assistance....
It was disclosed from DAY 1!
NSA, financial tracking....this is not NEWS!
What it is I have not figured out, except that it is PRETENSE. And, again, I do not know why!
> One reason is to MISLEAD!
> You tell the enemy that your efforts have been harmed so that you disclose efforts that have minimal effectiveness thereby leading your enemy into a sense of comfort and making a fresh mistake.
> It is all a Chess game.
In that case, in the last two moves Team Bush has taken the enemy's Rook (Zarkawi) and Knight (NYT--if by thus misleading the Old Grey Whore, Pinch, Keller, et al. are dispatched). There are still the Bishops (imams & mullas) and the Queen (Iran's nutcase) till OBL is checkmated. Trouble is, when the Pawns blow themselves up, they keep reappearing...hopefully this will end when the enemy's back row is eliminated...and well before one of his Pawns converts to Queen.
But the next move belongs to Bush.
"But the next move belongs to Bush."
And the Evil Genius Karl Rove.
Actually, I think Dick Cheeney is the chessmaster here.
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