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New York Times ombudsman Barney Calame, often referred to as “The Empty Suit,” finally gets around to admitting that the Times was wrong to reveal the SWIFT program that monitored terrorist banking. He also admits that no person’s private data was misused, and that the program was not illegal. He does not ...
By the way, in case you missed it, the New York Times is also trying to damage the CIA’s formerly secret “rendition” program. Here’s a gushingly sympathetic portrait of an Algerian detained in Afghanistan after being expelled from Tanzania: Algerian Tells of Dark Term in U.S. Hands. The case of one ...
In another New York Times piece defending their decision to publish national security secrets, they raise the issue of Colonel Oliver North: A History of Publishing, and Not Publishing, Secrets. (Hat tip: Doss.) In 1985, The Times reported that a Marine colonel in the White House was overseeing the secret war ...
FreeRepublic.com has organized a demonstration outside the Washington DC office of the New York Times, today at 12 noon: Groups to Protest Treasonous Reporting. The D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com, an independent grassroots conservative organization, and Accuracy in Media (AIM) will hold a demonstration at noon, Monday, July 3, at the Washington, ...
You have got be kidding me. TIME.com: No One Gets a Blank Check. The line between dissent and disloyalty, between harmful revelations and vital ones, is murky. Often we never really know. But I would argue that the judicious questioning of the conduct and morality of war is the furthest thing ...
The New York Times has published photos of the vacation homes of Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, identifying the small Maryland town where they live, and in Rumsfeld’s case actually pointing out the location of a hidden security camera: Second Homes in St. Michaels, Maryland. (Hat ...
A Wall Street Journal Editorial rips the New York Times for letting their hatred for Bush take precedence over the security of their own country: Fit and Unfit to Print. After being asked by several administration officials not to publish the SWIFT story... The Times decided to publish anyway, letting Mr. Fratto ...
Now that the New York Times has appointed themselves America’s shadow government, here come the George Soros-funded international terrorist enablers to make sure Al Qaeda’s privacy isn’t violated: Group Asks Gov’ts to Block Data Release. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) LONDON — A civil liberties group said Wednesday that it had asked ...