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Originally Posted by alias (by Ann Coulter) When is the New York Times going to get around to uncovering an al Qaeda secret program? | The same question could be asked of a multi-billion dollar backed administration that has been spying on everyone, including U.S. citizens, for how long now? It is evident by this lack of uncovering any Al-Quada in the U.S. that the program is not working anyway. Quote: |
In response, the Bush Administration is sounding very cross -- and doing nothing. Bush wouldn't want to get the press mad at him! Yeah, let's keep the media on our good side like they are now. Otherwise, they might do something crazy -- like leak a classified government program monitoring terrorist financing.
| Could this be because Bush knows, if it comes down to brass tacks, the 'classified government program monitoring terrorists', is already public knowledge and is posted(since 2002) on the U.N. web site. This makes all the conseratives, pushing this thing, guilty of what they claim is the liberials problem, making something out of nothing and lying through their teeth about the issue! Just more division of the masses. Quote: |
Unless, that is, the country has simply abolished the concept of treason. We've got a lot of liberals who hate the country and are itching to aid the enemy, so what are you going to do? Indict the entire editorial board of the New York Times? (Actually, that wouldn't be a bad place to start, now that I ask.)
| This is a pretty bold and hypocritical statement. The Times did not break the law. Could this all be just a distraction from who actually did? Not to mention the fact that liberials do not want to help the enemy, how retarded. Quote: |
What if, instead of passing information from the government's secret nuclear program at Los Alamos directly to Soviet agents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had printed those same secrets in a newsletter? Would they have skated away scot-free instead of being tried for espionage and sent to the death chamber?
| She can't be serious. The cold war brought just as much fear as this one, to the hearts of Americans, Over a long period of time and that threat(USSR) was very real. We had enough to worry about with the Soviets having this info. Quote: |
Thanks to the New York Times, the easiest job in the world right now is: "Head of Counterintelligence -- al Qaeda." You just have to read the New York Times over morning coffee, and you're done by 10 a.m.
| LOL That is unture and, not to, mention childish. Again, these two programs were not sanctioned by our supreme court(which they very easily could have been) and the Times was reporting on our President's polices which are illegal.
The American people have a right to know if our goverment structure is being abused! As for the program Swift, it was already public knowledge.
The Times held the illegal wiretap story for a whole year before printing it, and it revealed nothing the enemy didn't already know(that it's calls could be monitored). If Al Qaeda has a 'Head of Counterintelligence' he must be pretty stupid to not consider phone calls being monitored. The reason such a big deal is being made about this is this administration is using distraction from the main issue. No charges will be brought because they can't make them stick. Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
Last edited by tyreay; 06-30-2006 at 06:30 AM.
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