NY TIMES LEAK REPORT BLASTED

Two very distinct accusations have emerged toward the NY Times concerning their reporting of the financial surveillance program despite the insistence by the Bush administration to kill the story. First the President, (http://www.theconservativevoice.com/ap/article.html?mi=D8IFVIV00&apc=9008 ), blasted the leak and then the Times for printing the story. President Bush sited the damage that it has done to intelligence gathering and the security of the nation stating that, "Congress was briefed and what we did was fully authorized under the law," and that, "The disclosure of this program is disgraceful." Another even harsher criticism of the Times came from Representative Peter King, (R NY -http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50784) . There have been a number of times in the past that I have disagreed with King because of his stance on certain issues but this time I believe that King has hit the nail on the head as he calls for an investigation of the NY Times for treason. "We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King told the Associated Press. King, the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee stated that he was contacting the Attorney General to, "begin an investigation and prosecution of the New York Times - the reporters, the editors and the publisher." My concern now is whether a deaf ear will be turned toward this act by the NY Times as has been the practice in the past. I stated yesterday in the Sunday Commentary that I believed that an investigation will take place and will meander through whether the program was legal or not as happened with the NSA program and add today that it will be used by the Democrats for a political spotlight in an election year while fully knowing that the program is legal and that the Congress was briefed just as happened in the NSA terrorist surveillance program. Senator Arlen Spector the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has already indicated that he favors a more wait and see attitudee to investigating the Times for treason showing his usual weak backbone. I hope the Attorney General takes a much harder stand. This time the investigation demands to center around a criminal act of treason for revealing state secrets both by the Times and a deeper investigation to discover who has been leaking this vital intelligence information to the press with criminal prosecution for both the leaker and the responsible parties at the Times. It is time for this liberal rag to pay the consequences for the damage that the paper, its reporters, editors and publisher have caused while following their liberal political agenda with the country and our security suffering for their acts. We are at war and this liberal rag has a policy of sensationalized headlines, promoting their liberal agenda and hindering the War on Terror all for an opportunity to play Woodward and Bernsteinn, (the Watergate reporters), and bring down a President. Mr. Attorney General now is the time to end this treasonous and destructive practice of the New York Times!

Ken Taylor