Assorted Babble: PROSECUTE the New York Times says Rep. King

Sunday, June 25, 2006

PROSECUTE the New York Times says Rep. King

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) calls on our U.S. Atty General Alberto Gonzales to PROSECUTE the N.Y. Times. I say, heck ya.....the sooner the better. I don't understand why they have not been already. Republican Rep. Peter King also feels there should be full investigation of the N.Y. Times.
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Via Fox News: Rep. King Seeks Charges Against Papers Over Terror Reporting

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration on Sunday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.

Another Excerpt

King, R-N.Y., said he would write Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urging that the nation's chief law enforcer "begin an investigation and prosecution of The New York Times — the reporters, the editors and the publisher."
"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King told The Associated Press.

Another excerpt

Stories about the money-monitoring program also appeared last week in The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. King said he thought investigators should examine those publications, but that the greater focus should be on The New York Times because the paper in December also disclosed a secret domestic wiretapping program.

He charged that the paper was "more concerned about a left-wing elitist agenda than it is about the security of the American people."[read more]