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Giving the enemy the heads-up that the United States was listening in on international phone calls wasn't good enough for the traitors at the NY Slimes.
Once again, the traitorous reporters and editors at the NY Times provide aid and comfort to our enemies by publishing information about classified intelligence-gathering programs (See Bank Data Is Sifted by U.S. in Secret to Block Terror)
Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials.
Allow me to paraphrase this and provide a little truth:
ATTENTION AL-QAEDA AND OTHER CONCERNED TERRORISTS:
Our terrorist-enabling spies inside the US government have provided us with information regarding a classified intelligence-gathering program which traces your financial transactions.
As we do not concern ourselves with the safety and security of the infidel citizens of the United States, we are providing this information to you with all due haste — under the guise of a "U.S. privacy concern".
Thanks to the work of our moles, this program is no longer classified.
Further warnings will be issued as more information is gathered. Our long-term goal of bringing down that despicable George Bush will not falter, even at the expense of the lives of infidel American citizens.
Power to the Jihad!
I believe this about covers it.
My brain cannot fathom the mental processes (or lack thereof) in use at the NY Slimes when they intentionally decide to publish this kind of stuff — even after the U.S. government all but begged them not to print it...and knowing full-well that the program is one hundred percent legal.
The program, run out of the Central Intelligence Agency and overseen by the Treasury Department, "has provided us with a unique and powerful window into the operations of terrorist networks and is, without doubt, a legal and proper use of our authorities," Stuart Levey, an under secretary at the Treasury Department, said in an interview on Thursday.
But, the terrorists weren't in the loop, so the Slimes took it upon themselves to inform them.
To cover their true lust for an American defeat, they cue up the [predictable] faked "privacy whining" track:
The program, however, is a significant departure from typical practice in how the government acquires Americans' financial records. Treasury officials did not seek individual court-approved warrants or subpoenas to examine specific transactions, instead relying on broad administrative subpoenas for millions of records from the cooperative, known as Swift.
That access to large amounts of confidential data was highly unusual, several officials said, and stirred concerns inside the administration about legal and privacy issues.
"The capability here is awesome or, depending on where you're sitting, troubling," said one former senior counterterrorism official who considers the program valuable. While tight controls are in place, the official added, "the potential for abuse is enormous."
"unusual...and stirred concerns...about legal and privacy issues."
So some weasel (read as "one former senior counterterrorism official") goes crying to the first place they can think of to get this program stopped: The NY Slimes. Where else? Even Al-Jazeera can't get this kind of support for their propaganda.
This country is at war. The enemy is already within the gates. Gathering intelligence on their activities and whereabouts is not easy, nor is it a comfortable, pleasant task. Providing them intelligence as to our own intelligence is — and there is no other word for it — treason.
There is a lot more on this at Michelle Malkin.
Updated June 24, 2006, 7:15 a.m.
Michelle Malkin has even more on this here, here, and here.
Malkin urges all readers to contact the NY Slimes and the LA Slimes to let them know what we think of their seditious methods.
They can buy ink by the barrel, but we can fight back now with bandwidth by the terrabyte. I'm getting inundated with furious readers' letters to the Times, most of which the editors won't bother to read or publish--since they're not in, you know, the "public (Pulitzer) interest." So I'm reprinting a representative sample here and I'll keep adding to it. Don't forget that it's both the NYTimes and the LATimes that blew off security concerns in favor of blowing the cover of the terrorist finance tracking program.
Send a letter to the editor by e-mailing letters@nytimes.com or faxing (212)556-3622. Snail mail:
Letters to the Editor
The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036LATimes e-mail form here.
Scott Johnson, at PowerLine puts the spotlight on who really violated federal law:
In its editorial on the subject today, the New York Times offers no shred of an argument concerning the possible illegality or overbreadth of the program. It cites no instance of abuse. Rather, the Times argues "these efforts need to be done under a clear and coherent set of rules, with the oversight of Congress and the courts." The Times purports to invoke the rule of law where no law has been broken, and where the Times itself has both broken the law and damaged American national security.
Donald Luskin points out that the target of NY/LA Slimes anti-American counter-intelligence programs are aimed directly at taking down President Bush.
"...the administration's extraordinary access to this vast repository of international financial data, however carefully targeted use it may be, is a matter of public interest."
Note that he's talking about "the administration's" access to the data, not government's access. In other words, if any story can colorably create the impression that this administration -- this Republican administration -- is abusing information on citizens, then the "public interest" in the Times making that argument overrides all other considerations of protecting the life and limb of those same citizens.
The Mrs. commented to me this morning on the duplicity of the Slimes machines. An inordinate amount of ink and virtual forests of paper were expended in going after Bush/Cheney/Rove for the alleged outing of Valerie Plame (a long-inactive CIA operative). The basis of their eruptions? Yep. It was in the name of national security. Yet, the Slimers are unwilling to apply the same national security standard when it comes to catching those who seek to destroy our nation, our culture, and our people.
Words cannot describe my consummate disgust with todays American-based, terrorist-supporting spies — working under the label of "The Press".
It is long past time for the federal government to grow a pair and arrest, convict, and imprison (or execute for all I care) all of those responsible for this information getting into the hands of our enemies. Start with the editors and writers at the NY/LA Times. It is known that, according to the Traitor-Times reporting, the source of the leaked information was a "former official" involved with the program. There's your first lead, guys.
President Bush once said, "You are either with us, or with the terrorists." (paraphrased). This statement still holds true. It will always be true — forever. Period.
The rags of the liberal media have once again shown us on which side they stand.
