At the very least there’s been Elliott Spitzer, Laura Richardson and, now Rep. Jim Cooper. All of them have a “D” after their names. (Yes, I know that Jim Gibbons is a Republican.) It seems that, unlike 2006, 2008 is the year of the Democratic scand…

New York Times 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018

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Eight principal load bearing columns on a 32/32 grid.

Thanks NYTimes!

I want to draw to my readers’ attention Scott Shane’s discussion at the New York Times of the interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed by agents of the Bush administration. The article produces some fascinating and relevant details about the…

The New York Times either thought this through and didn’t care about the life of an interrogator OR they are lacking in the mental capacity department…maybe both. In this post that I caught over at NRO from Greg Pollowitz, we…

Commenters in the Headlines item are comparing the Times’s stance here to its stance on Plame, but Plame was apparently undercover when her identity was leaked whereas the interrogator here was, allegedly, never covert.

This is a difference of degree, not of type. The problem with disclosing the identity of undercover agents is not primarily that it ruins their effectiveness (although that is a consideration,) but rather that it exposes that individual and everyone nearby to danger. The general discretion of the CIA regarding the locations of detention and the identities of personnel, effectively prevents enemies from learning the identity of the interrogator unless they have an inside source; the Times provides that inside source, and thus exposes the interrogator to reprisals from which he’d probably be safe otherwise. It may not be as egregious a violation as the outing of Plame would have been (if the government had actually done that); but it’s the same violation.

The editors are scum and the paper is pure propaganda.

Did George Tenet ever call Novak or his editors to stop him from writing about Plame? No, he did not.

So either that means the CIA cared less about Plame’s identity than they did about this interrogator, or George Tenet was just an idiot of a CIA director.

I’m sure many here would agree it could blow either way – or be a combination of the two…

I’m gonna need some hefty Ibuprofen today. I’m trying to wrap my head around the logic behind the New York Times, and its attitude towards the revealing of CIA officers……

Don’t forget the military. It’s red state.

Eh, depends.

Squid Shark on June 22, 2008 at 12:06 PM

Looking at CNN 2004 exit polling:

Military Voters:

Bush: 57
Kerry 41

Non-Military
Bush 49
Kerry 50

So, it was military voters that gave Bush the edge in 2004’s popular vote (and presumably electoral vote). I’m actually surprised the numbers weren’t more lopsided*…but then again, I’m surprised a man like Kerry can live with himself.

*Admittedly exit polling has to be taken with a large grain of salt. The Military Times in pre-election polling got a result of 72/17 Bush/Kerry from active duty personnel.

This is why I have to fight with myself to not just outright hate liberals. (I have lost that fight, however, in trying not to hate the liberal media.)

Complete and total bullcrap. And nobody’s going to do anything about it.

Is this paper still in business?

pat on June 22, 2008 at 5:13 PM

If you had bought New York Times stock in 1980, nearly 30 years ago, you would have made a profit of exactly 0%.

Pretty impressive! And they just paid their quarterly divident (following a quarterly loss) and moved into very fancy new Manhattan digs.

They are in the destruction of value business. And you know how that ends up. It is only a matter of when, not if. Everyone knows it. It is a sinking ship. It cannot remain as it is.

Only a Soros type can rescue it, but as currently constituted, it no longer seems to be in the long-term profit making business, their protestions to the contrary notwithstanding.