Posted on 06/28/2006 5:05:24 PM PDT by pissant
Because we don’t know, Jack …*
On the Monday, June 26 edition of CNN’s “Situation Room,” hosted by Wolf Blitzer, New York Times editor in chief Bill Keller discussed the newspaper’s decision to publish last week details of a secret U.S. Government program to track terrorist financing.
Here’s a part of the exchange:
KELLER: To the best of my knowledge, three people outside of the administration were asked by the administration to call us. I spoke to one of them. One of them spoke to our Washington bureau chief. One of them spoke to Jill Abramson, our managing editor. All of them spoke, they thought, in confidence, and I don't think I will breach the confidence of what they said, although I will say that not all of them urged us not to publish.
BLITZER: Because in the letter from the treasury secretary, he specifically refers to former Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton, who, together with the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, Governor Tom Kean of New Jersey, appealed to you not to print this information. I assume you can confirm Lee Hamilton, since the treasury secretary has disclosed his name.
KELLER: I am happy to tell you who we spoke to. I think I'll leave it to them to tell you what they actually said, but I will say that...
BLITZER: Who were the three people outside of the administration that asked you not to report this information?
KELLER: Tom Kean, Lee Hamilton and Congressman Jack Murtha.[1] <#_ftn1>
Some analysts have noted that because Treasury Secretary John Snow has publicly named former 9/11 Commission co-chairmen Tom Kean, Sr., and Lee Hamilton as people he knew to have talked to officials of the New York Times, and because Mr. Keller has indicated that New York Times officials received calls from three people outside the Administration – to wit, Tom Kean, Sr., Lee Hamilton, and U.S. Rep. Jack Murtha – but then goes on to say that “not all of them urged us not to publish,” the question is raised as to whether or not Jack Murtha actually urged the New York Times not to publish.
Today’s question for Jack Murtha:
Did you or did you not urge senior officials of the New York Times not to publish the offensive article?
*An ongoing investigation of Jack Murtha, brought to you by Diana Irey for Congress.
BTTT!
I heard that!! One of them DIDN'T say not to publish!! Most likely MURTHA!!
Ping and bump.
We know it wasn't Kean (from an earlier thread)
Hamilton was briefed on it years ago.
That leaves.......
Two fantasy headlines...
"Murtha Humiliated in Election Loss, Departs in Shame to Okinawa"
"New York Times Goes Out of Business, Al-Qaeda Deeply Saddened"
bttt
MURTHA needs to be SUBPOENAED!!
[Did you or did you not urge senior officials of the New York Times not to publish the offensive article?]
Looks like a pretty straight forward question to me and I believe Diana Irey deserves a straight answer being she is running against him.
Murtha seems to want to get in front of TV cameras and disparage our military and our country at every possible opportunity, the least he can do is answer this simple question.
http://www.irey.com/
That is THE question that someone needs to ask Congressman Murtha..."What advice did you give the New York Times regarding the publishing of the SWIFT/banking classified information"?
When the Marines are found innocent it will be time to demand that Jack Murtha resign!!!!!!!!
ping.
Both Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton went public with their criticism of the New York Slimes.....in the most emphatic words, I am assuming that Murtha's public silence in this matter is self explanatory.
FYI..Weasly Clark was just on Bill O'Reilly, and was asked about the Times leak..
And Clark said it wasn't a big deal what the Times did...and that obviously the White House didn't make it clear that they didn't want it published...
SOOOOOO...I would guess that NO, Murtha did NOT tell them not to publish...they are all the same, they want the death of the Bush presidency, even if it means the death of Americans, and America.
Clarke swore an oath to the United States, I'm not sure, but I don't think the oath "expired" when he retired from the Army. Maybe the Pentagon can do something about him abetting treason.
BLITZER: Who were the three people outside of the administration that asked you not to report this information?KELLER: Tom Kean, Lee Hamilton and Congressman Jack Murtha
That would indicate Murtha asked him not to report it. Yet previously in the transcript, Keller says the Administration asked three people outside the administration to call, but that not all three urged the NYT to refrain from publishing the story. So something doesn't compute.
(1) Why would the administration ask Murtha, one of their loudest critics lately, to call on their behalf? Did he tell the administration that he would support them on this one matter, and then when he got behind closed doors with the Times people, did he betray them?
(2) Why would Keller answer Blitzer's question about who asked them not to publish by saying he wouldn't betray a confidence, and yet then go on to do exactly that by saying not all of them asked the NYT to refrain from publishing the story?
(3) Why, a few questions later, would Keller then again "betray a confidence" by naming three people who asked the NYT not to publish the story, two of whom were Dems Hamilton and Murtha?
Secretary of Treasury Snow says that is a lie.
Maybe Murtha is THE leaker....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Saw him on O'Reilly also. Weasley Clark is as much a disgrace as Murtha, can't tell the truth. He said he wasn't relieved of command he just retired early, an outright lie.
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