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Congressman King (R-NY) Labels Scooter Libby's Actions "Treasonous"
As Editor and Publisher reports, the Republican Congressman from my birthplace, Peter King (R-NY), has labeled the actions of anyone who discloses classified information during wartime "treasonous". (emphasis mine)
WASHINGTON The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration Sunday to seek criminal charges against The New York Times for reporting on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.
Rep. Peter King blasted the newspaper's decision last week to report that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records.
"I am asking the Attorney General to begin an investigation and prosecution of The New York Times -- the reporters, the editors and the publisher," said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. "We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous."
While King was referring to the NY Times' reports of US Treasury Department's massive mining of financial database records, I am sure that in his quest to be the uber-patriot, he would include anyone who leaked such information during wartime.
As such, I am sure he is extremely concerned about Scooter Libby's role in the leaking of Valerie Plame's name to the press, and will be asking for Karl Rove to step down.
Or will he? Regardless of whether the courts ever pass judgement of the actions of the New York Times, does Congressman King also believe that Scooter Libby should also be charged with treason?
Enquiring minds want to know. And those enquiring minds can reach Congressman King's office to ask those question at 202-225-7896.
Please let us know if Congressman King supports the troops by removing traitors in his midst.
Good question Casey. Looks likt the left and the right have a little bit of agreement...Leaking secret operations and methods during war time is treasonous!
Now if only we could have concensus that leaking covert spies to go to war is treason; and leaking papers like the NYT's the names of the people protecting our country is treasonous.
Last week it was the NYT's hit piece.
Today it's the WAPO against both Kerry and Feingold. How much more blatent can they be?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/AR2006062700141.html
Congressman King's staff is in a meeting now. The staff person assigned to this issue is Ryan Travis.
The official line from staffperson "B" so far is "I can't answer for the Congressman".
Nor could he answer for the Congressman on his wackjob statement that the NYTimes "gave us Fidel Castro".
No Congressman, I believe it was Baptiste lying about Castro's death that set the stage for Castro mythic rise in the media....
The staff meeting is expected to end at 10:30.
Interestingly, my zip code growing up in Massapequa was 11762.
Casey,
I thought you would have learned by now. There is one set of laws for all of us and one set of laws for them.
I posted a link in the last thread, and I will repost it here. It clearly shows that the information that the NYT published is nothing new and was available over the internet as well.
Take your pick; a) Rep. King really doesn't know what is going on, and he is being used by the White House to feign indignation or b) the White House had knew this information was available but decided not to tell Bush. I pick both a and b.
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/06/reports_of_us_monitoring_of_sw.php
GOOD !
Sue the times for Treason, sue all media outlets for treason...
If they committed treason it was during the 2000 and 2004 elections, playing along with the bush administration to get along. Now they are getting a dose of their own medicine.
This is what happens when tyrants are supported, they go after everyone that poses a threat to their power, even those that placed them in power.
Maybe now the Media will "get it"
My e-mail to Peter King:
Did you know the information in the NYTimes was already avaliable on the internet? Did the White House tell you the information in the Times was not available to the general public? If so, you were "punked" by your friends at the White House.
You should check out this link before you start getting too hot under the collar.
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/06/reports_of_us_monitoring_of_sw.php
Friends and lurkers at the DCP...
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Hear the echoes in the wind?
"Come to St Paul....."
Come to St. Paul....
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Very good Oncall. lol!
Posted by: sparrow at June 27, 2006 09:52 AM
I'll be there in spirit at least :)
we'll be underway...
If MSM hadn't spent so much time mischaracterizing the war, the IWR, that Kerry was for the war, he couldn't be painted as backsliding. The story sure wanted to marginalize our guys, and nothing about the issue, only the politics.
Or that at the same time, General Casey was pulling together the same thing.
Peter King, of the Dem primary video, "It's all over but the counting, and we do the counting," is well worth putting under truth serum.
He is also leading the GOP effort to make 'English only' part of the Voting Rights Act renewal emphasis, a further disenfranchisement. We thought that was a settled issue.
Don't need English to be a citizen, and language assistance, including language, is supposed to be offered to encourage participation. Something the GOP discourages.
The New York Times has an article about the subject as well..
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/washington/27prexy.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th
Voting participation, that is.
Voting participation, that is.
I see the stories about Bush's signing statements as a way to get around the law
&
Rush Limbaugh's little saga have both made
the Comcast mainpage
Good to see
The Peter Principle...
National Security Be Damned
Weekly Standard: The New York Times Is Revealing Too Much
by Heather Mac Donald
By now it’s undeniable: The New York Times is a national security threat. So drunk is it on its own power and so antagonistic to the Bush administration that it will expose every classified anti-terror program it finds out about, no matter how legal the program, how carefully crafted to safeguard civil liberties, or how vital to protecting American lives.
The Times' latest revelation of a national security secret appeared on last Friday's front page — where no al Qaeda operative could possibly miss it. Under the deliberately sensational headline, "Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror," the Times blows the cover on a highly targeted program to locate terrorist financing networks. According to the report, since 9/11, the Bush administration has obtained information about terror suspects' international financial transactions from a Belgian clearinghouse of international money transfers.
The bottom line is this: No classified secret necessary to fight terrorism is safe once the Times hears of it, at least as long as the Bush administration is in power.
more...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/26/opinion/main1751137.shtml
Ugh.