Carnal Reason

I hope so:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the House homeland security committee urged the Bush administration on Sunday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace suspected terrorists.

Representative Peter King cited the New York Times in particular for publishing a story last week that said the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records.

King, a New York Republican, said he would write Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urging that the country’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,” King told The Associated Press.

For years I’ve been hearing that terrorism should be handled as a police matter, not by military means. Here was a perfect case of police work being used successfully to fight terrorism, so naturally the NY Times had to put an end to that. I sincerely hope police methods will be used against the Times.

Posted on June 25th, 2006 by pwyll
Filed under: politics