However, the Old Gray Lady occupies the bull’s-eye on Islamic terrorists’ dartboard. If Gotham ever suffered a dirty-bomb attack, Times Square would be the quintessential venue for a radiological blast. In that event, gamma rays would race through the thyroids of Times staffers within seconds.
Perhaps America’s self-appointed “paper of record” is so self-absorbed that its morally vain editors and publishers ignore al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack that killed 2,749 individuals in Manhattan. As author Ron Suskind reported, al-Qaeda came within 45 days of unleashing a 2003 cyanide-gas assault on New York subways that could have killed Times readers and employees.
Reckless N.Y. Times endangers itself and us
The most puzzling thing about The New York Times’ exposure of America’s counterterrorism secrets is that it has no apparent sense of self-preservation. If the Times were headquartered in, say, Bismarck, N.D., its spectacular disregard for human safety might be explained by its bet that terrorists never would hit it directly.
However, the Old Gray Lady occupies the bull’s-eye on Islamic terrorists’ dartboard. If Gotham ever suffered a dirty-bomb attack, Times Square would be the quintessential venue for a radiological blast. In that event, gamma rays would race through the thyroids of Times staffers within seconds.
Perhaps America’s self-appointed “paper of record” is so self-absorbed that its morally vain editors and publishers ignore al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack that killed 2,749 individuals in Manhattan. As author Ron Suskind reported, al-Qaeda came within 45 days of unleashing a 2003 cyanide-gas assault on New York subways that could have killed Times readers and employees.
As the Great Satan’s principal metropolis, and home to Earth’s largest Jewish population outside Israel, New York holds a special place in the icy hearts of the worst anti-Semites since Nuremberg.
The Times spurned pleas by the White House, Treasury and even Democrats Lee Hamilton (September 11 Commission co-chair) and John Murtha (Iraq War critic and Pennsylvania congressman) to stay quiet about the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program.
cw-4As the Times threatens 8.5 million New Yorkers, its potentially suicidal Bush hatred has devolved into reckless endangerment of Americans everywhere. Terrorists have populated Atlanta, Los Angeles, Phoenix and San Diego.cw-3
Conversely, the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency work tirelessly to connect the dots, which President Bush’s critics (including the Times) slammed Bush for not doing before 9/11. Now that Washington connects the dots, the Times disconnects them.
The tracking program helped authorities capture Riduan Islamuddin, the ringleader of the October 2002 Bali nightclub bombing that killed 202 innocents.
Like its unilateral “declassification” of the NSA’s Terrorist Surveillance Program last December, the Times spilled the beans on the tracking program even though this initiative is considered legal, congressional leaders were briefed on it, and no American claims to be its victim.
“The 9/11 Commission recommended that the government be robust in tracing money,” Bush told reporters last Monday. “And that’s exactly what we’re doing. And the fact that a newspaper disclosed it makes it harder to win this war on terror.”
The Justice Department should prosecute the officials who leaked the tracking program story and the Times-niks who publicized it. Handcuffing a few disloyal newsmen and their sources for aiding and comforting our wartime enemies will telegraph this message.
Itzik_s
In that event, gamma rays would race through the thyroids of Times staffers within seconds.
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They need gamma rays to set their addled brains straight. The Times would like to see Israel in the hands of Ahmadijendeh and the US run by the Hillary Clinton-Osama bin Laden dream ticket for at least 5 terms until the Mexicans take over.
Sara
I think that it’s very ridiculous to blame the Times for reporting the lies and sneeky activities of our government. If what the government was doing was justified and legal, which it is not, then I believe that the Times would feel that there was nothing to report. However, since this is not the case, not only do I think the Times has a right to report these things I believe that every American has a right to read them. It’s also a bit odd that the Times is the only one being blamed for these reportings, while many of the other national newspapers, including the Washington Post, has also been reporting these occurances, if not more so. I don’t think that in the midst of a war on terror, the reporting of an American newspaper will undercut the billions of dollars already fighting the evildoers. It’s actually ironic that the government has the audacity to lash out on the Times for disclosing such a thing, when they can’t even take responsibility for their own crime of disclosing a national secret (i.e. Valerie Plame). Whether the Times is biased on other issues is another story, but to answer the question of whether they are intitled to report what they have been reporting, then answer is a solid, yes.
Eliyahu R.
Does anyone really think that our enemies rely on the NYT or any other newspaper for their intelligence and information? The only people to whom this reported information comes as a surprise are the general public. The US government, foreign governments, and all the world’s intelligence services already know this, so we’re not giving any information to the enemy that they don’t already have.