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2006-06-26 Home Front: WoT

Treasury Secty Snow's letter to the NY Times

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Posted by lotp 2006-06-26 19:26|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 P.S. may you crappy little rag go clear out of business.

Posted by Slereth Angimble8930 2006-06-26 19:44|| 2006-06-26 19:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Shut em down, prosecute the lot, throw away the keys. That should go a long way to drying up the leaks. Do it now.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2006-06-26 19:56|| 2006-06-26 19:56|| Front Page Top

#3 I like pulling their press credentials to gov't events

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-26 20:04|| 2006-06-26 20:04|| Front Page Top

#4 BINGO, Frank.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-06-26 20:10|| 2006-06-26 20:10|| Front Page Top

#5 How about some Warren Buffet sized fines? Say for every innocent civilian or soldier of any nation killed after their publication, they reimburse the family $1.5b per year?

Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-26 20:10|| 2006-06-26 20:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah, a "strongly-worded protest." Nice- but will it be backed up with prosecution?

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-06-26 20:24|| 2006-06-26 20:24|| Front Page Top

#7 If I was the chump in the intelligence community who leaked this story to the press, I'd be feeling a little nervous about now.

Posted by SteveS 2006-06-26 21:18|| 2006-06-26 21:18|| Front Page Top

#8 How much longer will the NY Times shareholders tolerate the shenanigans and pandering of this fossil? When will the Sulzbergers be called to account for their management fiasco?

Posted by doc 2006-06-26 21:25|| 2006-06-26 21:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Okay, folks, the fact that Mr. Keller hasn't been arrested in the last four hours doesn't mean things aren't happening. They might not happen but this needs time to play out.

Mr. Snow writes a letter. Mr. Snow then forwards a complaint to the DoJ. The DoJ has to conduct an investigation; then forward results to a federal DA, which means further investigation. At some point a grand jury would be empaneled. That would take weeks to months.

Remember the investigation launched after the NSA leak? There was one, remember? Haven't heard much lately. These things take time.

Mr. Keller and Mr. Risen will get theirs, eventually, but it won't happen in 24 hours.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-06-26 21:32|| 2006-06-26 21:32|| Front Page Top

#10 In the meantime, Steve White, let them go to bed every night listening for a knock at the door, and wake each morning to fear an unscheduled meeting with a few very seriously dressed officials.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-26 21:58|| 2006-06-26 21:58|| Front Page Top

#11 a breathtaking arrogance...the fourth estate are arrogant leftish agenda-pushing snipes hiding behind the First Amendment.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-06-26 22:02|| 2006-06-26 22:02|| Front Page Top

#12 BTW - your email addy for requesting the DOJ to prosecute these bastards is: askdoj@usdoj.gov

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-26 22:02|| 2006-06-26 22:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Who leaked TO the NYT reporters in the first place? None of these Times pieces are possible without someone on the inside of the program passing information to them. A Congressman? Someone with SWIFT? Someone in Treasury? It could have even been innocent - 'good' reporters are talented at guessing, and then telling you in a way that makes you think they already know, such that you somehow (maybe even unconciously) confirm that they are right (seems like the case on the Plame incident). Nah, it was probably another BDS sufferer.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-06-26 22:03|| 2006-06-26 22:03|| Front Page Top

#14 The fact that your editors believe themselves to be qualified to assess how terrorists are moving money betrays a breathtaking arrogance and a deep misunderstanding of this program and how it works.

A very straightforward and diplomatic way to lay it on the line as who they are: arrogant f*cks with an agenda.

I would like to see GOOD, THOROUGH homework done by the DoJ. Not the half-baked sh*t that won't stand up in court. Hire some top of the line people outside the govt to do the heavy lifting, if you don't have the heavyweights internally. This thing in many ways is like purse seining in commercial fishing. Go around the school of fish, giving them a wide berth with a seine net. Get them encircled, then steadily and swiftly close in the net and you have the whole shebang. Take them out of circulation, heh. Send a message to the rest. Take out the govt leaker, too.

I would also pull the NYT press credentials for entering the White House press briefings, and fergawdsake, DO NOT allow the NYT personnel on Air Force 1 or other govt flights. There has to be serious consequences to leaking classified information. Get the NYT on the defensive, lock them out of govt news outlets, and get them in court. Tie them up. Their circulation will tank, their reporters will be locked out, and become quite pi$$ed at Pinchy and Co and quit, and you will sink the MF'ers and EVERYONE will learn a valuable lesson. The world will then be a better place.

My 2 inflation-riddled cents.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-06-26 22:23|| 2006-06-26 22:23|| Front Page Top

#15 I suspect most of us have a few bucks in mutual funds either directly or through 401K's. Here is a list of mutual funds that owned over a million shares of NYT stock as of the end of March. Perhaps the fund managers would be interested in hearing from us.

Posted by Matt 2006-06-26 22:26|| 2006-06-26 22:26|| Front Page Top

#16 I can't cancel my subscription to the NY Times - I don't subscribe. But I plan to avoid about.com - which is owned by the Times.

Posted by DMFD 2006-06-26 22:39|| 2006-06-26 22:39|| Front Page Top

#17 I have to go with Steve W on this -- there's stuff going on about that NSA and prisons leaks. With this cry of "freedom of the press" the AG's office has got to be sure that have dotted every i and crossed every t. Between the lines, you kinda get the feeling they are pretty close. And I for one, want to be sure, they have dotted every i and crossed every t, so we don't get something like a perjury indictment instead of the real deal, of releasing classified documents to the media. Remember, they have the Mary lady from the CIA that got fired. Seemingly, she knew lots.

Again, let's get the i's and the t's right. We want this one to stick!

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2006-06-26 23:02|| 2006-06-26 23:02|| Front Page Top

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