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Posted on 07/01/2006 12:07:10 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Are the New York Times, the L.A. Times and others honoring the threat when they publish classified information about our anti-terrorism methods? Judging from their actions it would appear that Bill Keller at the New York Times, and others, see a greater threat from the Bush administration than from those engaging in acts of jihadist terrorism. full article here...
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Treason Sinkhole swallows up Old Hag
Sooooo, lemme get this straight: The New York Times defends the outing of a top secret program on the basis that the terrorists probably already knew about the program and the program was secret which is why they outed it and the public had a right to know about this secret program that the terrorists probably already knew about so it wasn't really a secret and somebody had to take a stand against DUMBYA'S REICH-WING FASCIST TYRANNY and nobody's been prosecuted for treason under Dumbya's Reich-wing fascist tyranny so WE at the Times have nothing to worry about and this White House is too secretive anyway and we're tired of the secrecy and you can't blame us for publishing the story since this White House is leaking like a sieve. It's immoral and outrageous to have leaked Valerie Plame's "secrets." Unless WE'RE doing the leaking.
Got that? Joe Blow Wilson "outs" his own desk-jockey CIA witch, so Karl Rove should go to jail.
Given how fast its circulation is falling, outing top secret programs could be part of the paper's drive to sign up new al-Qaeda subscribers to offset the loss.
The Bush administration for weeks begged the New York Times not to out the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP), a follow-the-money Treasury-CIA program, begun shortly after 9/11, which tracks suspicious international moments of moolah among terror cells with the goal of curtailing terror funding and curtailing things like terrorists flying planes into skyscrapers. Under TFTP, "transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda" can be traced by counterterrorism officials "reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperative" known as Swift, write the counter-counterterrorism duo of Eric Lichtblau and James Risen.
The program helped bag al-Qaeda honcho Riduan Isamuddin, whose peaceful Islamic activities included masterminding the 2002 Bali bombing, and Uzair Paracha, a Brooklyn man who helped an al-Qaeda operative in Pakistan launder $200,000 through a Karachi bank. The program had helped identify some of the biggest enemies of the U.S. on American soil. No, not the Democrats. Terrorists and terror cells. So, the New York Times outed the largest U.S. effort to track and cut off terrorist financing. And tipped off al-Qaeda to this Bu$Hitlerian invasion of their privacy.
But! The paper says it was done to protect our freedoms. Feel much safer now, don't you? Just 'watching' over the 'PNAC neoCon regime' for us. Listen, if you let Bush snoop on al-Qaeda's bank records, Bush wins. Libbies see it as a slippery slope. First they came for the Taliban, and I said nothing . . . then they came for Saddam's gold toilet seats, palaces and semi-kidney-shaped swimming pools, and I said nothing . . .
For all the talk about "privacy," once you're killed and pieces of you are scattered all over your bombed out train, chances are at that point you might consider "civil liberties" a tad overrated.
'Sides, the program is legal. SCOTUS has ruled that the Fourth Amendment doesn't protect financial records held by third parties. Financial transactions limited to within the U.S. are not in the Swift database. An independent auditing firm ensures only terrorists are targeted. Administrative subpoenas were used. Members of Congress were briefed. Members of al-Qaeda weren't briefed. That's the problem the Times has with the program. If al-Qaeda is sending you money, we DON'T want to know about it.
Liberals love central planning, socialist health care, national ID cards, street surveillance cameras, national gun registries, smoking bans, the IRS, and rummaging through Rush Limbaugh's luggage for possible possession of Preparation H, but thank goodness they draw the line at combing through Mullah Omar's bank records.
Liberals are so easy to please. Watch over terrorists for them, and they whine that Bush is being Big Brother. Then they whine that Bush isn't protecting them enough, pointing to "lax" port security -- each shipping container isn't being scanned for dangerous packages possibly containing Viagra.
Libbies whine that Bush didn't "connect the dots" and foil the 9/11 plot before 9/11 and scream "ENTRAPMENT'! for foiling the Sears Tower bomb plot. Yes, these seven little darlings were upstanding citizens until Bush entrapped them. The lesson here is that terrorists have become so discombobulated by Bush's 'failed' policies, they can't get much beyond the planning phase anymore.
The Losercrats whine that the war is taking too long. It's being "prolonged" by cowboy warmonger Bush to expand his hegemonic influence throughout the planet. Take it from this hegemonist in good standing, this war would probably be over a lot sooner if it weren't for pond scum liberals giving their fellow pond scum "insurgents" in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere the hope of defeating America. Mustn't 'abuse' al-Qaeda. Mustn't "wiretap" al-Qaeda. Mustn't spy on al-Qaeda. Mustn't detain al-Qaeda. Mustn't 'rendition' al-Qaeda. Mustn't infiltrate al-Qaeda. Mustn't "entrap" al-Qaeda. Mustn't comb its finances. Mustn't have Gitmo. Mustn't fight with both hands. Mustn't harm al-Qaeda's little eardrums with loud Christina Aguilera music. Or adorn their heads with panties. Near as I can tell, the Democrat plan to fight and win the War On Terror is to detain Rush Limbaugh for erectile dysfunction.
"My (redeployment) plan is not cut and run. Their plan is lie and die," John Kerry told Imus in the Morning shortly before his plan lied and died on the Senate floor, 86-13. The alternative Levin-Reed redeployment "plan" also lied and died shortly afterward, 60-39. Given their impressive string of defeats, I don't know why Democrats don't just redeploy to France. Or to Paradise Island -- Cuba.
This, straight from the horseface's mouth: "Our plan is very simple. It's redeploy to win the war on terror. Change to succeed. You have a better chance of success" through redeployment.
To that I have only one reploy.
I propose that we redeploy the New York Times to a maximum-security U.S. penitentiary. No, this ain't a "pull out," just a redeployment. Change to succeed. Change their location to the slammer until they give up their "source" or "sources." You have a better chance at success. And yes, let's have a strict timetable -- let's have the leaker or leakers face a redeployed firing squad by no later than two years ago.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
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Good ta' "C U," John.
NY CRIMES - TO WRITE THE PUBLISHER OR PRESIDENT
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Chairman & Publisher:
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Scott H. Heekin-Canedy, President, General Manager
president@nytimes.com.
Well said!
It's hard out here on a hag.
The NEW YORK TIMES...You would think the paper from the city where 3,000 beings died in an unprovoked attack on America would put the left wing radical nonsense in the deep freeze.
Guess again folks...who's the enemy here?
Evidently not.
looks like the treason sinkhole of the left to me!
I loved your 2 cents.
We need to honor the threat presented by the NY Times.
The NYT editors originally said said they had to go public because it's the public's right to know about such a secret program. They have since changed that excuse to the fact that there is no harm in their reporting on this program because everyone knew about it anyway. So which one is it?
Civil rights groups certainly didn't know about it. But they do now and are threatening to sue the financial institutions involved in the EU.
Co-Chairman of the 9/11 Commission Kean said that very few people even in the banking world know about SWIFT and how it works, and almost no one would have had any idea that the US was able to get access to this data.
Kean further said that: "The terrorists didn't know the financial transactions went through this one group. Treasury told me, this was a method of financial tracking that people didn't understand, that nobody knew this was how things were done. Top-notch people in the US didn't even know."
Excellent, John.
Several points:
This was bound to happen. The premise behind the First Amendment as it applies to the press--that a vigilant watchdog is necessary, sufficient--indeed, possible--to protect against man's basest instincts--is tautologically flawed: The fox guarding the White House, if you will....
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It is strange that now a Google search on related key words returns absolutely nothing on this issue. What I did find was that O'Neill and Clinton are spending a heck of a lot of time together on various initiatives.
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