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p2p news / p2pnet: The New York Times and several other newspapers which published the fact that, helped by the CIA, the Cheyney / Bush administration monitors foreign financial transactions, should be prosecuted, says House Homeland Security Committee chairman Pete King.
It, "clearly broke the law," the New York Daily News has King saying. "The terrorists did not know that we had access to foreign transactions. This has definitely compromised our security in a time of war."
He was "especially peeved" because the NYT revealed the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of terror-linked phone calls from abroad.
"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous,"the Associated Press quotes King as declaring.
And, "I'm calling on the attorney general to begin a criminal investigation and prosecution of The New York Times, its reporters, the editors that worked on this and the publisher," King said on Fox News, according to The New York Times. "What they've done here is absolutely disgraceful."
He also said the NYT was, "more of a recidivist" because of its publication of its article on the NSA program last year.
"He added, however, that he believed that the actions of other news organizations, including The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, should also be examined," says the story.
Below is part of a letter NYT executive editor Bill Keller sent to readers who'd written to him about his newspaper's publication of information about the government's examination of international banking records.
It's an unusual and powerful thing, this freedom that our founders gave to the press.
