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December 28, 2005
NY Times Toys With Treason
Posted by Dave Blount at December 28, 2005 8:53 AM
It's common knowledge now that the erstwhile "paper of record" — the New York Times — has become so devoted to its sophomoric ideology that it can no longer be considered a reliable source of news. Its obsession with race at the expense of ability gave us Jayson Blair; its obsession with dragging down the President at the expense of our country is giving us something much worse. An editorial in yesterday's New York Post notes that the Gray Lady is approaching the line between partisan propaganda and treason.
There seems to be no regard for the collateral damage caused by irresponsible attempts to embarrass the Bush Administration. The much-hyped wiretapping "scandal" — whereby the Times strategically revealed that the NSA has been listening in to phone calls to terrorists overseas — involved publishing classified information that will impede efforts to defend against the next 9/11.
But our safety is hardly a concern of the Times; it's happy to supply ammo to far-left Democrats and media allies like CNN and CBS, who are now screeching for the President to be impeached for taking common sense (and hardly unprecedented) steps to block the next big terror attack. By highly dubious coincidence, the Times released this story (after sitting on it for a year) on the day the Senate was to vote to overcome a Democratic filibuster against renewing the Patriot Act, which pretty much all grownups and even a lot of Democrats agree is a crucial tool in our defense against Islamic terrorism. According to the Post, "[a]t least two previously undecided senators said they voted against the act precisely because of the Times piece."
Aiming a blunderbuss at the Bush Administration and shooting the head off our national security is getting to be standard procedure at the Times. Its highly detailed accounts of the CIA running its own airline service disguised as a private charter company so that it could come and go without terrorists being the wiser was another unnecessary barricade thrown in the path of those trying to protect the pampered little left-wing elitists at the Times — as well as the rest of us — from getting blown to bits in the next al Qaeda attack.
Even at the local level, the Times can be counted on to undermine the defense of public order, as when it announced last week that the NYPD uses plainclothes officers to make sure protest demonstrations don't get out of hand, even publishing pictures of undercover officers, with no effort made to protect their identities. This not only makes it more difficult to prevent the next moonbat rally from degenerating into Seattle in 1999 — it also impedes the ability of undercover NYPD officers to defend against terrorism.
After touching on all of these stories, the Post sums up:
Does The New York Times consider itself a law unto itself — free to subversively undercut basic efforts by any government to protect and defend its citizens?
The Times, it appears, is less concerned with promoting its dubious views on civil liberties than with undercutting the Bush administration. The end result of the paper's flagrant irresponsibility: Lives have been put in danger on the international, national and local levels.
The ability of the nation to perform the most fundamental mission of any government — protection of its citizens — has been pointlessly compromised.
The Jayson Blair and Judith Miller fiascoes were high-profile embarrassments for The Times, but at the end of the day mostly damaged the newspaper alone.
The NSA, CIA and NYPD stories are of a different order of magnitude — they place in unnecessary danger the lives of U.S. citizens.
The New York Times — a once-great and still-powerful institution — is badly in need of adult supervision.
Hat tip: Varla
