Let's talk a bit about the New York Times and their most recent blatant acts of treason.
Yes, I said treason, and I don't use the term lightly. Revealing national security secrets in a time of war is the very definition of treason, at that's what the Times has been doing with alarming frequency of late.
The details of a completely legal plan looking for suspicious internation monetary transactions used to fund terrorists overseas or to direct their money to operatives here? Now useless, thanks to the Times. Troop levels as reported in a classified briefing? Printed in the Times. Those are just the two most recent examples.
There was a time in this country where even the New York Times had a sense of responsibility to the country at large, not to their pet causes. Did they print attack plans during World War II? Of course not, but I'm sure they would today, as part of the public's "right to know" (actually part of their continued plan to do everything possible to destroy George W. Bush.) You can also be sure the next time a Democrat President pleads with them not to reveal information, they'll of course say that discretion was called for in that case.
There is Freedom of the Press, as outlined in the First Amendment. But guess what, that means there will not be state censorship of the press. That does not mean there will not be legal liabilities for printing blatantly treasonous content.
Granted, they're not alone. Those who are leaking this information to the press need to be found and found now, arrested, and put on trial for - you guessed it - treason against the United States of America. Frankly, the number of people with security clearances blabbing away is nothing short of an embarassment to the country. Imagine people inside the War Department blabbing to the press that we were breaking German and Japanese codes during World War II, with the next day's Times headline undoubtedly reading U.S. Continues Warrantless Eavesdroppng on Foreign Communications. In today's world, I certainly can.
In the mean time, it's good to know Al Qaeda need not spend dime one on intelligence of their own, and need not do any work to try and figure out how America is tracking them down and what America's next moves in Iraq, down to the numbers of military present will be. All they need to do is pick up a copy of the Times.
(Los Angeles Times? They're just as bad, also giving the same lame answers as to why the need to reveal the contents of secret programs is minimal compared to the need to betray the country they print their garbage in. No wonder their readership continues to plummet like a rock.)
Read all about it at The Truth Laid Bear.
