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Newsweek's hero
Power Line —
... of the espionage laws. The harder question is whether the New York Times should be prosecuted for violating these laws, a question I took up in the Standard column "Exposure." ...
NSA Domestic Surveillance Whistleblower Revealed
Crooks and Liars —
... December 19th, 2005, President Bush raged about what he deemed "a shameful act" that is "helping the enemy". Ever since, the same mouthpieces on the right who vigorously defended Scooter Libby over the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame as payback for husband Joe Wilson's criticism of Bush's bogus Iraq claims have called for the prosecution of not just Tamm, but the New York Times itself. Over at Commentary, the Weekly Standard (here and here) and today at Powerline, the drumbeat continues.
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Thomas M. Tamm, American Hero and Patriot
Comments from Left Field —
... of the espionage laws. The harder question is whether the New York Times should be prosecuted for violating these laws, a question I took up in the Standard column “Exposure.” ...
Newsweek's hero, part 2
Power Line —
... As I pointed out in "Exposure, the New York Times is also subject to prosecution under the same espionage laws as Tamm, Tice and their brothers in crime. Michael Isikoff and his Newsweek colleagues are guilty only of being fools. ...
Death of the AIPAC case
Power Line —
... on Rep. Jane Harman disseminated by Congressional Quarterly SpyTalk columnist Jeff Stein that proved to be an omen foretelling the demise of the prosecution. Only missing from the Journal editorial is a comparison of the Justice Department's prosecution of Rosen and Weissman for fabricated espionage crimes with its inaction regarding the real espionage crimes of the New York Times, which I wrote about in the Standard column "Exposure." ...
A secret kept by the Times
Power Line —
Today the New York Times reports that its David Rohde had been kidnapped and held by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past seven months. Why did the Times sit on this story? The Times states: "Until now, the kidnapping has been kept quiet by The Times and other media organizations out of concern for the men's safety." The Times explains:
"From the early days of this ordeal, the prevailing view among David's family, experts in kidnapping cases, officials of several governments and others we consulted was that going public could increase the danger to David and the other hostages," said Bill Keller, the executive editor ...
What Bill Keller learned from George Bush
Power Line —
On Sunday we wrote about the escape of New York Times reporter David Rohde from his captivity with the Taliban. In its page-one story on Rohde's escape, the Times disclosed that it had kept Rohde's kidnapping and detention by the Taliban a secret for the past seven months.
Speaking on Howard Kurtz's CNN program, New York Times managing editor Bill Keller provided additional comments on his decision to keep the story of Times reporter David Rohde's kidnapping out of the paper. "All along, we were told by people that probably the wisest course for David's safety was to keep it quiet," Keller said in his interview with Kurtz.
"It ...
How much damage did the Times do?
Power Line —
... James Risen and Eric Lichtblau are the New York Times reporters who disclosed the highly classified NSA eavesdropping program in December 2005. In my view their behavior was blatantly illegal. In all likelikhood it did great damage to the national security of the United States. I wrote about their story and provided relevant links in the Weekly Standard column "Exposure." ...
