JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATES SURVEILLANCE LEAK

This being my final post of 2005, I think it appropriate that it covers the most damning evidence that the left and their accomplices in the media care only for power and nothing for this country or the people. I was glad to hear that the Justice Department is investigating the source of the leak to the New York Times which revealed the wire tap surveillance program of Al Qaeda operatives in The United States. Though the press and the left have made hundreds of damaging statements and made numerous false accusations toward the President and our troops throughout 2005, this leak of a vital program legally used by The Commander in Chief as a means to protect this nation is far beyond damaging our national interests but a direct threat to national security as it hinders the President's ability to use any and all means necessary to fulfill his primary responsibility; protecting this nation. Those involved in this leak whether in the press or any government entity including the White House staff or members of Congress are guilty of treason and when their identities are revealed through this investigation, the Attorney General should charge them as such and full punishment applied accordingly. This does not fall under the first amendment right of freedom of the press. When the Founding Fathers established this as a freedom their intent was that the press use common sense and NOT use their position to threaten the security of the country as this leak to the Times has done. During a time of war the press is expected to use discretion and realize that national security interests should be placed above ,"getting the story." Had the press not used discretion during WWII and revealed the numerous ways that intelligence was gathered in order to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, one has to wonder if the final outcome of the war would have been the same. The left will continue to pursue this as an illegal activity when Congress goes back into session after the Christmas and New Years break. They and their media friends will continue to milk this for political gain and never concern themselves with the consequences nor the damage that this blatant act of treason is doing to our country and the aid that their political grand standing is giving to our enemies.

Ken Taylor