New York Times accused of treason

[mdlbear]

NY Times accused of treason | The Register

US Representative Peter King (Republican, New York), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has called the New York Times "treasonous" for informing the public about another secret Bush Administration counter-terrorist program, the Associated Press reports.

The article (in The Register) is worth reading, since it goes on to point out that the Bush administration's trolling through banking records is already under investigation in Belgium. Unlike the US, some European countries actually have effective data privacy laws.)

Meanwhile, here in the US, we are rapidly approaching the time when any attempt at all to publicly hold the Administration to account for its crimes will be considered "treasonous". Oops!

Comments

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Declaring that anyone who is against you is against the Country and a Traitor is how most dictatorships run things. Yep. So far, the USofA citizenship eventually wakes up and throws the bums out.

The only problem is by the time we finally can get the bums out, they will have done some major damage that it will take decades to repair.

I just hope people wake up soon. The longer they are in power, the longer the repairs will take.

[animekid.livejournal.com]

I know I'm too young for this...
But somehow this reminds me of what I learned regarding McCarthyism?

[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

(sarcasm) Gee, I can't imagine why it would do that. (/sarcasm)

[mdlbear]

McCarthyism was worse, as I recall, but not by much.

[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

Fortunately Peter King is not an officer of the law, and no matter how much he flaps, he is not allowed to drag the editor of the Times into court in chains. Asshat.

[dejla.livejournal.com]

"There is no truth that is not a treason."