TagsTagsThey’re puzzled. Puzzled, I tell you! Haven’t a clue. Totally in the dark. Complete mystery. Huh? Did you say something? Argument against report puzzles NYT editors. (Hat tip: ciaospirit.) NEW YORK - The New York Times is defending itself from criticism about a report on secret financial monitoring of terrorists, saying it ...
From The Corner: Mr. Bill Keller, Managing Editor The New York Times 229 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Dear Mr. Keller: The New York Times’ decision to disclose the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, a robust and classified effort to map terrorist networks through the use of financial data, was irresponsible and harmful to the ...
Iowahawk’s team of dumpster-diving cybernetic Saint Bernards has been busy in the alley behind 43rd Street, and they’ve unearthed the first draft of New York Times editor Bill Keller’s patient explanation for the Times’ repeated exposure of secret security programs: The Banking Report: Let Me Make It Simple For You ...
President Bush is angry with the New York Times, and Hot Air has video: Bush calls Times’s expose “disgraceful.”
I don’t even know what to say. The New York Times is a rogue agent, completely out of control: U.S. General in Iraq Outlines Troop Cuts. (Hat tip: roddy.) WASHINGTON, June 24 — The top American commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects sharp reductions in the United States ...
Investor’s Business Daily says the actions of the New York Times and other papers, exposing secret national security programs in wartime, are inexcusable. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.) Now the same Times reporters, Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, are back with the SWIFT story. They took a lot of flak for the NSA ...
The New York Times blows open another secret program: Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror. Well, it isn’t “secret” any more, is it? WASHINGTON, June 22 — Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial ...
These two soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice, confronting an enemy whose barbarity knows no bounds. We solemnly honor their service, and express our condolences to their families in this time of grief. And we should not ignore or look away from the depth of the depravity of the enemy. This is ...
Candygram for Mansur Suleiman al-Mashhadani: US troops kill Zarqawi’s ‘right-hand man’. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) The US military says it has killed the “right-hand man” of slain Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Major General William Caldwell says Iraqi Mansur Suleiman al-Mashhadani was killed on Friday by US forces in Yusifiyah, ...
Washington Times columnist Diana West on the insane enervating political correctness that has marked every step of the “war on terror:” A war that isn’t. Discussing the war on “terror” has been endlessly awkward. Terror — like blitzkrieg, sneak attack or even disinformation — is a tactic not an enemy. But ...
Here’s Part One of a provocative, closely reasoned and very readable essay by J.R. Dunn, former editor of the International Military Encyclopedia: Prospects of Terror: An Inquiry into Jihadi Alternatives. This [the cartoon jihad] was not a conspiracy against Denmark, but against the West and all its values. The only way ...
US urged to abandon force-feeding at Guantanamo. The alternative, of course, is to simply let them starve to death. LONDON (Reuters) - More than 250 doctors from seven countries urged the U.S. government on Friday to abandon force-feeding and the use of restraints on hunger strikers at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The ...