Posted on 04/14/2010 9:57:01 AM PDT by Mount Athos
I have just received word that the New York Times is preparing to go public with a list of names of Americans covertly working in Afghanistan providing force protection for our troops, as well as the rest of our Coalition Forces. If the Times actually sees this through, the red ink they are drowning in will be nothing compared to the blood their entire organization will be covered with. Make no mistake, the Times is about to cause casualty rates in Afghanistan to skyrocket. Each and every American should be outraged.
As chronicled here, here, here, and here the Central Intelligence Agency via the New York Times has been waging a nasty proxy war against the Department of Defense over its use of former military and intelligence personnel to do what the CIA is both incapable and unwilling to do: gather the much needed intelligence that keeps our troops safe.
According to Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, “[T]he U.S. military has long been unhappy about the quality of CIA intelligence in Afghanistan,” and the senior military intelligence officer in Afghanistan, Maj Gen Michael T. Flynn went so far as to publish a stunning report calling for “sweeping changes to the way the intelligence community thinks about itself.”
The report goes on to quote General Stanley McChrystal, who stated that “our senior leaders – the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense, Congress, the President of the United States – are not getting the right information to make decisions with … The media is driving the issues.”
Through its use of the New York Times, the Central Intelligence Agency has tried to embarrass the Defense Department into shutting down what, by all accounts, has been an amazingly successful program, which has dramatically saved American and Coalition lives and continues to do so on a daily basis.
But thanks to the beating the folks on the 7th floor at Langley and the New York Times have taken in the blogosphere, they are about to go for broke and to do so in a fashion so grotesque that every American should be moved to action.
These morbidly conjoined twins have entered dangerous territory. They are not only putting at risk the lives of the brave men and women working day and night to keep our troops safe (who, along with their families, will surely be targeted for retribution by al Qaeda and the Taliban), but they are also calling down a host of legal woes via the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (made famous in the Valerie Plame affair under the George W. Bush Administration) as the intelligence gathered and reported on by the Defense Department operatives in question is most definitely classified.
So while the New York Times stands ready to once again put American lives at grave risk in order to sell a few more papers, the Central Intelligence Agency appears committed to its misguided “Kappes Doctrine”, (so named for Leon Panetta’s number-two man, who many in the intel game blame for being the “hidden hand in many of the nation’s intelligence failures”). Per the Kappes Doctrine, which was so disastrously tied to the F.O.B. Chapman attack, the Agency is happy to pay foreign intel services to take the risks as long as the CIA can take the credit (and in this case, continue to claim that what the Department of Defense is doing every day on the ground in Afghanistan can’t be done).
But fortunately for our troops, it is being done, it has saved countless lives, and it will continue to do so, unless the Times publishes its list.
To prevent its publication, I am calling on all Americans: Democrats, Republicans and Independents to bombard the New York Times and insist that they refrain from outing these brave Americans who are risking everything for the safety of our troops.
What the Central Intelligence Agency and the New York Times has cooked up is a recipe for unmitigated disaster and we used to have a word for it in our lexicon. We called it treason. But unlike the treason committed by the Times in the past, we have been granted a heads up and this time each one of us can do something about it.
I remember way back when someone published the names of overseas CIA staff, at least one was subsequently murdered (Athens ?).
Walter Duranty may rot in hell. I actually intend on paying a visit to his grave. He deserves the FINEST respect from me.
I guess that means he did get a call?
We all know they will say........The Bush administration did it LOL
You mean the Muhammadian Candidate?
” So the Media and Obama Administration are going to disclose names of covert agents endangering agents in the field?
Do it. Plamegate will be nothing compared to this corrupt scandal. “
Nah, they play by different rules and have different consequences.
No one outside of talk radio and the internet sites like this will even pay attention.
There will be a little fuss for a weekend and then the media will move on.
The enemy is inside the gate.
Perhaps I could send you the makings of a little momento you could drop off on my behalf.
Again; no low too low; when it comes to damning America and as well, those who put their lives on the line; for our Country.
Will Justice make good, for these people?
New York Times About to Put American Troops in Deadly Peril-AGAIN!
(Pinch must be on Eric Holder’s speed dial)
Didn’t the NY Times get their knickers all in a twist when Valerie Plame was “outed”?
Love his books. He’s got a new one coming out in June. Met him once at a book signing. Very cool dude.
As for the NYT - They will burn in hell.
The CIA should be damned careful about doing this.
The DOD has a very large and powerful SOCOM at its command. A fight between them and the CIAs SAD/SOG would be a mighty bloodbath.
I truly doubt such a spat would stay at “ground level” very long. The CIAs management Elis may be awful daring while flying a desk and ordering killers around. Not so much if they become targets themselves.
Left a message at the following number:
# PUBLIC EDITOR
To reach Clark Hoyt, who represents the readers, e-mail public@nytimes.com or call (212) 556-7652.
Basically I said, if true - and this comes from a credible source (given Brad Thor’s connections/experience) that this would be a tragic error in judgment and to please reconsider as this would have grave repercussions.
maybe we should have media outlets report on where these NY times journo’s live, what time they go to work, when they work and what days and lets see how thye like their ;privacy being public.
the MSM have been criminal since they saw bozo at the Dem convention
LOL...perhaps drink some fine 30-year old Scotch before p!$$ing on it?
I hope the dying rag loses even more readers and advertisers over this.
Drink a lot of water before you visit the grave
Contact Carlos Slim and let him know how you feel about this:
http://www.carlosslim.com/contactanos_ing.html
What brand do you plan to drink beforehand...?
Is this really a credible source?
I seriously doubt the credibility of the guy who posted this, he is basically an unknown novelist, and he hasn’t cited any sources except “his many contacts in the CIA”. If he was that concerned, he would have outed his sources, would he not?
And if this were true, the biggest culprits would be the CIA, for leaking names in the first place. Why are the CIA getting a free pass?
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