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June 23, 2006
Treason and Arrogance in the MSM
How's this for insolence:
Disregarding desperate pleas from the Bush Administration, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times have publicized government efforts to track global financial transfers as part of the war on terror, thus diminishing the program's effectiveness and imperiling national security.
The arrogance of these al Qaeda collaborators is so preposterous, you don't know whether to blow smoke out your ears or guffaw. Here's Doyle McManus, Washington Bureau Chief for La Times:
The key issue here is whether the government has shown that there are adequate safeguards in these programs to give American citizens confidence that information that should remain private is being protected.
Since when is it up to fifth-columnists in the media to determine what strategic information should be made public?
Here's what McManus has to say about the Treasury Department officials who yesterday pleaded at length with reporters not to sell us out to al Qaeda by making the program public:
They were quite vigorous, they were quite energetic. They made a very strong case.
As if that makes any difference. After all, whose side does Treasury think our media is on?
The Gray Lady, which had already accomplished the double whammy of handing Dems a phony issue and crippling our efforts to prevent terror attacks by publicizing the NSA's attempts to track terrorists' overseas phone calls, was predictably no better. Puffed NY Times executive editor Bill Keller:
We remain convinced that the administration's extraordinary access to this vast repository of international financial data, however carefully targeted use it may be, is a matter of public interest.
If these pompous traitors had published what are in effect military secrets during World War II, they would be sucking on cigarettes in front of a firing squad — which is one reason we won World War II.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 23, 2006 11:59 AM
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The Wall Street Journal also had the story and decided to run with it.
But the White House never told them to stop it. Looks like more conservative whining over another Bush boondoggle being exposed as a waste of time and resources.
Still no terrorists killed, caught, or stopped by these domestic spying programs.
No wonder the FBI calls it "Pizza Hut duty" -- not only is the government listening in on our orders -- they're now seeing how much we tip our deliverman on our Visa card.
That's supposed to protect us from terrorists how?
Posted by: Ronald Reagan at June 23, 2006 2:34 PM
The New York Times proves yet again to be the definition of the term "useful idiot." Within hours of publishing the story leaking classified info about tracking movement of terrorist funds, the same story was published on the terrorists' Al Jazeera web site:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B2470566-053D-4054-B4A6-841B67F1FDED.htm
Posted by: the paperboy at June 23, 2006 7:37 PM
Apparently, Junior missed the headlines about terror group broken up in Miami, or the plot against the New York subway system that was foiled.
Junior believes that preventing terrorism is unconstitutional. He prepares the Clinton administrations "wait until the terrorists blow up a building, then arrest them for vandalism" approach.
Unless, of course, the building is a military barracks in Saudi Arabia or an embassy in Africa, in which case just shrug and go back to chasing interns around the oval office with your pants around your ankles.
He's also apparently part of the tinfoil hat brigade that believes that Dick Cheney is personally going over his pizza receipts, and Karl Rove is directing the mind-control beam at his head.
Posted by: V the K at June 24, 2006 10:04 AM
Maybe the next 9/11 will be the nyt building.
Posted by: gene at June 25, 2006 7:57 PM
We can only hope....
Posted by: nikko at June 26, 2006 11:27 AM
