Dec 29 2005
IBD Calls Times, Post On Helping Our Enemies
Investors Business Daily minced no words today in saying the NY Times has helped Al Qaeda by alerting them to our methods, and tipping them off so they can adjust their plans to kill Americans:
It’s hard to imagine a major American newspaper in 1942 announcing before the Battle of Midway that we had broken the Imperial Japanese code or before D-Day that the Allies had a machine that let us read the Nazis’ highest-level transmissions.
Yet in the war on terror, that’s exactly the kind of information that papers like the Times and The Washington Post, in the name of the “people’s right to know,” have provided our jihadist enemy — from stories on secret CIA prisons where our mortal enemies are held to wiretaps on al-Qaida operatives and their U.S. contacts.
Is there any clearer example of how the liberal media nutcases have taken sides with our enemies than this? I think not. The comparisons are apt and illustrate what the media has accomplished in their pathetic efforts to create an impeachable scandal and pay Bush back for what happend to their democrat brotheren in Clinton’s second term.
Someone needs to remind these people Bush was not in Congress or DC, but was Governor of Texas when Clinton was impeached. Bush had no say one way or the other what happened to Clinton. It is time to really move on now.
Our own country is the battlefield. That’s what these guys don’t get.
We can’t fight hard in Iraq and with one hand tied behind our backs at home.
http://www.reportingwar.com/phares122005.shtml
SNIP
[T]estifying to the House Select Committee on Intelligence on October 30, 2003 on “Collecting Intelligence under the law,†former DOJ attorney John Yoo wrote:
“During wartime, the military engages in searches and surveillance without a warrant. We do not, for example, require the armed forces to seek a warrant when it conducts visual or electronic surveillance of enemy forces or of a battlefield, or when it searches buildings, houses, and vehicles for the enemy. Nor must military operations within the United States operate under a different rule.â€
” The Fourth Estate is beginning to look like a Fifth Column.”
Ouch!
“The Times finds itself in the unique position of publishing classified information at the same time it insists that terrorists in contact with their operatives in the U.S. have an expectation of privacy while plotting their next attack.”
Exactly.
Basically, the NYT doesn’t want us to be able to defend ourselves.
I bet if I wrote the NYT and told them about an American who was a dangerous terrorist with ties to Iraq and/or Al Qaeda, they wouldn’t print it because they might be sued or worse, but they constantly accuse the government of breaking the law because the government can’t sue them.
Perhaps the NYT should employ detectives, go under cover and infiltate the American terrorists–and I don’t mean just Al Qaeda–and then write about what they learn in their newspaper.
Then I might respect them. They would be doing something to protect my rights. But I am not holding my breath.
Richard Pearl was a reporter who tried to find out what terrorists were doing, and he got his throat cut.
If Al Qaeda begins cutting NYT reporter’s throats, I will listen to what they have to say about our rights.
So far, I feel the NYT is just cutting America’s throat.
There is a CIA officer who wrote a book called Jawbreaker on TV.
He was in Afghanistan tracking OBL.
He says that Muslim Americans have served America in the WOT.
I think that is a perspective that doesn’t get heard much.
Gray Lady Down – a slam against the NYT
This is the best opinion piece I’ve seen yet on they hypocritical nature of the MSM when it comes to real leaks to the press that can damage our national security:
Trust: The so-called mainstream media in general and The New York Times in parti…
AJ–
A guy on TV claims that if the government wants Padilla to go to a civilian prison all they have to do is pick up a phone and call a US marshall.
His take on the Padilla story is that the Administration wants this case in the Supreme Court.
Hope this is an OK place to post this information.