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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (743760)	6/26/2006 12:31:03 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Treasonous' The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration yesterday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists. Rep. Peter T. King cited the New York Times in particular for publishing a story last week that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records. Mr. King, New York Republican, said he would write Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales urging that the nation's chief law enforcer "begin an investigation and prosecution of the New York Times -- the reporters, the editors and the publisher." "We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," Mr. King told the Associated Press. A message left yesterday with Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis was not returned, the AP said. Speaking yesterday on CNN's "Reliable Sources," conservative David Frum called the publication "as big a media scandal as it's possible to be." "How secret was this program? Well, it helped to catch the author of the Bali bombing. It helped to catch a number of other terror suspects. I think it would be hard to come closer to the classic definition of publishing the departure time of a troop ship in war time and inviting the enemy to shoot a torpedo at it than this," said the National Review Online columnist. "Here's a program where there's no allegation of abuse," he added. "Here's something that has caught important terrorists. ... Here's something that will never catch an important terrorist ever again, and it's all because a newspaper said, 'We think it's in the public interest.'"

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (743760)	6/26/2006 12:31:41 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Anti-patriots "Yet again, the New York Times was presented with a simple choice: help protect American national security or help al Qaeda," Andrew C. McCarthy writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com). "Yet again, it sided with al Qaeda," Mr. McCarthy said. "Once again, members of the American intelligence community had a simple choice: remain faithful to their oath -- the solemn promise the nation requires before entrusting them with the secrets on which our safety depends -- or violate that oath and place themselves and their subjective notions of propriety above the law. "Once again, honor was cast aside. "For the second time in seven months, the Times has exposed classified information about a program aimed at protecting the American people against a repeat of the September 11 attacks. On this occasion, it has company in the effort: The Los Angeles Times runs a similar, sensational story. Together, the newspapers disclose the fact that the United States has covertly developed a capability to monitor the nerve center of the international financial network in order to track the movement of funds between terrorists and their facilitators. "The effort, which the government calls the 'Terrorist Finance Tracking Program' (TFTP), is entirely legal. There are no conceivable constitutional violations involved. ... "Appealing to the patriotism of these newspapers proved about as promising as appealing to the humanity of the terrorists they so insouciantly edify -- the same monsters who, as we saw again only a few days ago with the torture-murder of two American soldiers, continue to define depravity down."