The CENTRIST is waiting. Waiting for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to open an investigation into the New York Times, and its role in the leak and publication of information about NSA intercepts. The CENTRIST is also waiting for Congress to do the same.
We’ll likely see the first long before the second. Instead of showing some moral courage, the members of Congress lined up to get their face time and express outrage that the President of the United States was spying on Americans. All this without any details beyond what a leftist reporter for the New York Times wrote, to accompany the launch of his latest “Attack Bush” book. The CENTRIST must be nuts looking for moral courage from a bunch of moral cowards called members of Congress.
It’s time to investigate, and indict the New York Times, which has been playing a dangerous game of running the edge of treason for decades.
It’s time to hammer that newspaper with fines for breaking laws.
It does not take a rocket scientist to show that both the New York Times and the Washington Post should be fined, and their editors jailed for complicity in the Valerie Plame affair – they should never have printed Plame’s name as a CIA agent! Certainly they bear a responsibility – a complicit responsibility in this crime of outing a CIA agent.
Now, the New York times violates Federal law once again by revealing state secrets, and offering aid and comfort to the enemy. Not that the Times hasn’t done this before…can you say “Pentagon Papers”?
The Times is not a newspaper, it’s a political propaganda organ that has crossed the line to commission of treason far too often.
Do not make any mistake, the CENTRIST values the Bill of Rights and the Freedom of the press, but there is a responsibility that attends the First Amendment. Clearly and repeatedly, the New York Times has violated that responsibility that it owes to the First Amendment; it has abused the First Amendment, and insulted it. Now it has crossed the line past the protections of free speech, and a free press. Just as freedom of speech has been found to not include yelling “Fire” in a theater when no fire exists, so is there a line across which the press must not travel. The line, in both cases involves responsibility, something the New York Times apparently knows little about.
It’s not just time, it’s past time to put these miscreants, these criminals masquerading as news reporters and editors in prison where they belong. They are costing American lives.
THE CENTRIST
"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. " Albert Einstein
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