Apparently, The NYT Thinks That This Is The Perfect Time To Celebrate Treason
FrontPageMag's Henry Mark Holzer argues that a drowsy fifth grader with a reading disability could still prove in open court that the New York Times violated the Espionage Act:
It is an article of faith on the Left and among its fellow travelers that the Bush administration stole two elections, made war on Iraq for venal reasons, tortured hapless foreigners, and conducted illegal surveillance of innocent Americans. A corollary of this mindset is that the press, primarily the Washington Post and The New York Times, has a right, indeed a duty, to print whatever they want about the administration—even if the information compromises national security. Not true. The press is not exempt from laws that apply to everyone else. The press is not exempt from laws protecting our national security. The New York Times is not exempt from the Espionage Act, as we shall see in a moment.
Simply as a matter of sensibility, we just don't know. As a rule, we're uninclined to make into a criminal case what ought to have been properly prevented or condoned by deliberative and cultural norms - holiday displays in public places, the Pledge of Allegiance in schools, government-press relations, etc. But we do know that we'd be a lot more uninclined on these issues if the left hadn't spent the last three years fanaticizing about Karl Rove being frog-marched out of the White House. Or if the New York Times hadn't chosen just this week to publish an article celebrating treason.
It is an article of faith on the Left and among its fellow travelers that the Bush administration stole two elections, made war on Iraq for venal reasons, tortured hapless foreigners, and conducted illegal surveillance of innocent Americans. A corollary of this mindset is that the press, primarily the Washington Post and The New York Times, has a right, indeed a duty, to print whatever they want about the administration—even if the information compromises national security. Not true. The press is not exempt from laws that apply to everyone else. The press is not exempt from laws protecting our national security. The New York Times is not exempt from the Espionage Act, as we shall see in a moment.
Simply as a matter of sensibility, we just don't know. As a rule, we're uninclined to make into a criminal case what ought to have been properly prevented or condoned by deliberative and cultural norms - holiday displays in public places, the Pledge of Allegiance in schools, government-press relations, etc. But we do know that we'd be a lot more uninclined on these issues if the left hadn't spent the last three years fanaticizing about Karl Rove being frog-marched out of the White House. Or if the New York Times hadn't chosen just this week to publish an article celebrating treason.
