All The News That’s Fit To Blackout
Blue Crab Boulevard and Anchoress have posts about the NYT's removal of a story regarding the recent airplane bombing plots in Britain. The question arises about freedoms and censorship and legalities. Britain apparently prohibits publishing crime details in the press before a trial. So the Times blocked the story to British readers.
Now I respect the fact that the NYT doesn't want to jeopardize the case in Britain , and heaven knows we want the British case to hold up in their courts.
HOWEVER, the NYT has NO COMPUNCTION about jeopardizing our national security programs when they print stories. The 'public's right to know' and all that. We can have SECRET programs designed to catch terrorists, but hey, the Times does not afford our nation the same honor they are willing to give to Britain.
So that says to me their allegiance in NOT with America but one more example of appeasement of the left. Everyone but America . International law above our Constitutional law.
It's the lack of consistency. It's yielding to another country's laws, but not our own.
I could go on. But I'll let you take it from here.
CASE IN POINT from chron.com regarding cutting off terrorist's banking funds:
"Iran is like the elephant in the room, if you will. ... They are the central banker of terror. It is a country that has terrorism as a line item in its budget," he said. (the Treasury Department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence)
In other matters, Levey said although terrorists and other criminals are always looking for new ways to move money, "the banking system still is the most efficient way and the preferred way."
He also defended the usefulness of a once-secret program that gives the U.S. government access to a massive international data base of financial information to catch suspected terrorists. The existence of the program, which started shortly after the 2001 terror attacks in the United States, was made public by news organizations the NYT in June.




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