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January 3, 2006

Calling the Gray Lady to Account

Posted by Dave Blount at January 3, 2006 1:10 PM

Far from the desired effect of crippling the Bush Administration, the New York Times' treasonous leak of NSA wiretapping activities may actually result in the Old Gray Hag having to take some responsibility for her pro-terrorist activities — or at least, Mac Johnson at Human Events Online sure hopes so:

Federal Prosecutors should vigorously pursue the New York Times' serious leak of classified information, and force the Times to reveal their sources. Anyone guilty of a crime should then be indicted, regardless of who they are or how self-righteous they behave.

It is ridiculous to imprison a foreign agent for passing secrets to our enemies, then shower praise on the New York Times for doing the same.

The convicted spy Aldrich Ames sits in a Federal Prison today for communicating some of our dearest secrets to the Soviet Union. Perhaps his real crime was forgetting to "Cc" the New York Times on those communications. It is time to stop treating the media elite as though they have the right to ignore without consequence any law that gets in the way of a journalistic scoop or a political agenda.

Certainly, the media themselves have come to believe that they have a quasi-governmental authority to randomly declassify any military or intelligence operation. Consider the following quote from a December 24th New York Times piece exposing yet another NSA operation, a data mining effort: "The current and former government officials who discussed the program were granted anonymity because it remains classified."

The NY Times has "granted" anonymity. Really? How about prosecutorial "immunity"? Can the Times grant that? We should vigorously prosecute such hubristic non-sense and end the anti-American counter-intelligence service that our media so willfully provides to the world.

Hat tip: Country Store

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