New York Times Outs CIA Operative

NewsBusters.org ^ | June 22, 2008 - 10:12 ET | Mick Wright |

[penelopesire]

Wow..thanks for the tip on the Gertz book. I love Gertz too.

It sounds like a great book.

[SunkenCiv]

In an astonishing stroke of irony, the New York Times has outed the name of the CIA operative who interrogated 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, over the objections of CIA Director Michael V. Hayden and a lawyer representing the operative.

The New York Times, official newspaper of The Party of Treason.

[Danae]

Can we the people file a lawsuit charging the Times with Treason or is that something the government can do. How can we the people hold accountable traitors?

[Enchante]

Times reporter Scott Shane describes his scoop as "the closest look to date beneath the blanket of secrecy that hides the program from terrorists"

This excremental NY Times reporter KNOWS that he is exposing sensitive, classified facts to the TERRORISTS but aiding & abetting America's enemies is just another day in the life of our libscumb journalists.

[GOPJ]

The same people who whined about Mrs. Wilson getting outed think this is great..

The New York Times sucks.

The only standard the NYT's has is hatred for conservatives.

Did I mention they suck?

When you get past that - nothing. Absolutely nothing.

[topher]

Hadn't you noticed there have beeon alot of pedestrian accidents in NYC?

CIA has to get better at hitting people...

[mojito]

As I wrote on another thread:

This man's name, and the fact that he has a family, should NEVER have been made public.

How many other interrogators are now afraid for themselves and their families because they may now be “outed” by the drive-by media?

These men do critical vital work of the most sensitive nature. Because of this article, you can bet that Mr. Martinez now has a price on his head. Does this bother the drive-bys? I doubt it. Will their conscience sting if he or a member of his family is harmed by terrorists? I doubt it.

The article would not have suffered if they had used an alias and changed some small but critical details. Instead, the media behaves like it is accustomed: as help-mates to the enemies of our country.

[Gondring]

...unAmerican...

As opposed to that good old American trait, murderous?

[Joe Boucher]

Yeah but they were trying to run over Fidel Castro at the time.

[Robert DeLong]

This article doesn’t say when the trials will begin. /sarcasm

[vanishing liberty]

While I most assuredly think it was wrong to have identified the interrogator, he was apparently not working undercover, so there were no laws broken in revealing his identity. Doesn’t that make it different from Valerie Plume?

[vanishing liberty]

I just read the NYT article. Pretty interesting. Says
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed sang like a canary—he gave tons of info about terrorists and terrorist plots. Libs, take note.

[DogBarkTree]

Frog march! ...to a firing squad I say

[VRWCmember]

Aren’t these the same people who wanted criminal charges for the Bush officials that leaked Plame’s name?

Only until they found out that the official that leaked the name was an anti-Bush, anti-OIF, liberal. Once they discovered that, they wanted Libby and Rove and Cheney brought up on criminal charges even though none of them had anything to do with the actual leak.

[Niteranger68]

It’s a shame that the 9/11 terrorists didn’t mistakenly take out 229 W 43 St New York, NY 10036 instead of the WTC. I said it...I meant it!

[ElectricStrawberry]

"other government employees" had been "named publicly in books and published articles"

Well....."other people" commit murder...guess they'll start pililng up the bodies.

[cake_crumb]

Weren't the whole staff of the Times "outraged" over Valerie Plames completely phony "outting"?? Quick, send in Patrick Fitzgerald!

[cake_crumb]

Gosh, I was getting really worried, but now you all inform me it’s Bush’s fault, the world has stopped spinning upside down and everything is back to normal.

[2harddrive]

This is the very same New Jack Times that protested so much when the non-agent civilian EMPLOYEE of the CIA, Ms. Valerie Phlame, was “outed”, they allege, by the Bush Admistration. LOL! If it weren’t for double standards, the Left would have no standards at all!

[griswold3]

Yeah, sure.
I can see the headlines now:

‘Bush Administration Targets Critics’

same old, same old