Posted on 06/21/2008 6:59:54 PM PDT by MrCFdovnh
Too bad, because an otherwise fascinating story about the scramble to build a counterterror apparatus after 9/11, the merits of coercive vs. non-coercive interrogation, and the stings that nailed Abu Zubaydah and KSM is going to be submerged in a debate over their decision to publish the lead interrogator’s name against his wishes and those of CIA chief Michael Hayden. Here’s the obligatory editor’s note justifying the decision. Quote:
"After discussion with agency officials and a lawyer for [the interrogrator], the newspaper declined the request, noting that [the interrogator] had never worked under cover and that others involved in the campaign against Al Qaeda have been named in news stories and books. The editors judged that the name was necessary for the credibility and completeness of the article.
The Times’ policy is to withhold the name of a news subject only very rarely, most often in the case of victims of sexual assault or intelligence officers operating under cover."
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Great job NYT. Exposing this Patriot to retribution is the American thing to do. What a bunch of commies and traitors at this shithole newspaper.
When is someone going to prison at the Times for treason?
Let me see if I understand this. It’s not OK for someone in the administration to reveal the name of a CIA operative who is not under cover but it’s Ok for the NYT to do the same? Is that correct?
This isn’t a crime? If the President would have dealt sternly with this crap from the nyt, dem congresscritters and other enemy mouthpieces early on...
Compare this to their coverage of the Valerie Plame story.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034568/posts
Inside a 9/11 mastermind’s interrogation
International Herald Tribune
they claim he wasn’t under cover. Of course, Plame hadn’t been undercover for more than 5 years before the Novak article appeared but that was only a detail in the world of these people who don’t care how much damage they do either to the country or individuals. There’s a special place in hell fo these ba$tard$
was this guy ever covert???
Scum, scum, scum.... Simply scum at the New York Times.
I’d say that the New York Times was engaged in enemy covert activity to destroy our way of life, and bring down our government...
Except that there’s nothing covert about the way the Times is going about its dirty deeds.
I look forward to giggling uncontrollably when the Times breathes its last journalistic breath and collapses under the weight of its own irrelevancy... within the next 3-5 years.
These are the same SOBs that went ballistic over the disclosure of ersatz spy Valerie Plame’s identity.
I haven’t given a nickel to those *astards in decades.
What’s even worse, they wouldn’t do this to a Rat President.
Valerie Plame was a desk-bound analyst, and had been for years, her own husband "outed" her, and it was common knowledge around D.C. that she was CIA BEFORE the incident you reference.
>>>This isn’t a crime? If the President would have dealt sternly with this crap from the nyt, dem congresscritters and other enemy mouthpieces early on...
I’m sorry to say that, the President I voted for, the President that has the guts and determination to take on al Qaeda and terrorism around the world...
ain’t got no b*lls when it comes to dealing with domestic traitors and domestic terrorists.....
Before you leave office, send this fish wrap to h&ll!
The scumbags at the dying NY Times are only doing what the scumbags at the dying NY Times always do. Nothing new there. It is the other scumbags, the ones who squawked to the NY Times, who need to be hunted down and shot.
On the other hand, maybe those alleged sources, in collusion with this lawyer, knew the NY Times would squawk and so they used the dying paper for a disinformation campaign and fed them false names and a ton of other red herrings.
Whatever....
In the end, nobody trusts the NY Times anyway.
You just echo what I implied. The MSM have a sense of entitlement that blinds them to their own bias.
They also revealed where he works, that he has a wife, and his age.
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