Of the inalienable rights of terrorists! The New York Times has done it again! severely damaged or outright crippled the ability of the US government to fight terrorism. This time they have fearlessly disclosed a top-secret program that targets only the international transfer of money to and fro from known terrorist organizations! Publishing all the details despite administration pleas that it will damage the ability to collect the data. Despite many people telling the reporters that the program has strict controls! Despite the arrests made because of the program!
What fearlessness! What cutting edge journalism!
Who cares how many Americans die because the New York Times decided it had the moral and legal authority to divulge the program so the terrorists could re-route money to finance future attacks? Who cares that the many people they interviewed gave a lot of justification for the program? Who cares that it sounds like only a few objected? Who cares that the laws are "murky" and may have nothing whatsoever prohibiting the program? Who cares that the editor decided that Americans needed to be put at risk so the New York Times could sell papers.? Who cares!
I do.
People need to go to jail over this one. A bunch of people.
Explain to me how the NYT reporters found out about these programs if they were “top secret”.
I wonder why we don’t like journalists….
Somebody leaked it to them.
Perhaps the same way they found out Valerie Plame was a “secret agent,” or, might it be the same way they found out about Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress, but it’s early, I haven’t had enough coffee this morning, and I can’t decide which.