Posted on 06/27/2006 7:11:42 AM PDT by bnelson44
Should The New York Times get the death penalty or merely a jail sentence? If the Times is guilty of treason in wartime, then obviously the "Gray Lady" should be wearing prison stripes - at best.
But although the Times is open about its willingness - make that eagerness - to publish secrets in wartime, it doesn't appear that the Justice Department plans on doing anything in response. And so it's fair to ask: Does the Bush administration have a serious plan for winning the international war on terror, or is it drifting down the path of least political resistance - and thus to defeat?
Friday, the Times printed details about federal surveillance of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, based in Belgium. The U.S. government's goal has been to uncover terror-financing networks, which are no small phenomena: Two years ago, the Council on Foreign Relations issued a report showing that Saudi Arabia, alone, gives $12 billion a year to Islamic "charities."
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I wonder if the NYT will go to jail to protect the leaker??
Or is that what the NYT is aiming at??
What exactly is the difference between what Pollard did and what the NY Times did? The NY Times' actions effectively constitute espionage, and that in a particularly arrogant and blatant manner. What could an enemy spy hope to accomplish more effectively, when the problem of getting information back to enemy leaders is solved by simply publishing that information publicly?
I understand your point and agree
But what the Courts will allow and think are not the same thing
Bush and Gonzales are busy scouring the White House for testicles...
I think the same way.
If a reporter or an editor at the Times obtained this classified information jumped on a plane to Jordan, entered the Iranian embassy and turned over the info to an AQ associate would he be in violation of the law? Or does the self-applied title of journalists exempt one from prosecution so long as the information is turned over to our enemies via the national media.
IMHO the administration has no choice but to go after the Times. We simply cant afford these leaks to continue for who knows what information will be leaked next.
I have no right or reason to know the information contained in the Times articles. I do have every right and reason to know who in my government is leaking this information to our enemies and putting my nation, soldiers, family and friends in harms way.
Peter King On the radio yesterday said that the NYT writer should be hauled before a grand jury and be compelled to reveal the source of the classified information.
If they don't, throw them in jail until they do.
As I'm not a lawyer, is something like that possible to do?
Which is more important, our classification system or the libs violating Godwin's law? We need to know who the leakers are. I don't think people have much sympathy for reporters who refuse to talk.
Targeting and defeating the enemy in our midst is, by far, the more difficult task and will measure Bush's resolve and courage (and his independence from the MPRDC (mutual protection racket in DC)) more than any pretty speech, more even than 'staying the course.'
IN A 'PINCH': RETHINKING THE FIRST AMENDMENT
(Which came first, the 'journalist' or the traitor?)
by Mia T, 6.27.06
If Dubya doesn't do anything about the NYT sedition, they will just keep on doing it. And count on several other liberal newspapers following suit.
The Slimes themselves would just love for the "government" to come after them--it would set up a genuine quagmire of legal chewing gum about three feet deep and derail the entire focus of the WoT with bogus crapola derived from twisting the First Amendment.
Bush is smart enough to avoid such a pointless and inconclusive fight, which would only end up in the courts. Much better DoJ should seek the leakers, and if any a-hole reporter wants to visit club fed for awhile, he's more than welcome to refuse to cooperate with lawful court orders.
Hey, the table has been set...the precedent is Judith Miller!!! I don't recall a lot of media SCREAMING about her being in jail......at most they "tsk tsk'ed" and really didn't care because they thought she was a friend of the administartion!! The MSM SCREAMED for the LEAKER to be frog marched in the Valerie Plame affair...they will reap what they have sown.
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