{"id":184,"date":"2006-06-28T09:33:31","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T16:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=184"},"modified":"2006-07-25T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T20:24:00","slug":"prosecute-the-messenger-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Prosecute The Messenger, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the New York Times story on the government prying into banking transactions<\/a>, an army on the right has formed to denounce, not just the story, but the Times for revealing what they consider to be a program vital to the safety of Americans. Politicians and pundits on the right are crawling all over themselves to condemn the Times, and others who published this material, as traitors. They are calling for the Times to have its press credentials revoked and for the paper and its reporters to be prosecuted under anti-espionage laws.<\/p>\n

Glenn Greenwald at Unclaimed Territory<\/a> has masterfully summarized and responded to the nonsense being spewed by these repressive opponents of a free press.<\/p>\n

They believe that the Bush administration ought to be allowed to act in complete secrecy, with no oversight of any kind. George Bush is Good and the administration wants nothing other than to stop The Terrorists from killing us. There is no need for oversight over what they are doing because we can trust our political officials to do good on their own. We don’t need any courts or any Congress or any media serving as a “watchdog” over the Bush administration. There is no reason to distrust what they do. We should — and must — let them act in total secrecy for our own good, for our protection. And anyone who prevents them from acting in total secrecy is not merely an enemy of the Bush administration, but of the United States, i.e., is a traitor.<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole article, and the case made in it, is worth reading and disseminating as far and as wide as bloggingly possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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