News Analysis: GOP Threats to NY Times for Reporting on Transaction Monitoring Is Critical Threat to Free Press

While I really hate to be put in a poasition of defending the NYT, after they allowed Judy Miller to run wild for months, helping this loony administration to take us to war, based on despicable lies and fear-mongering, I must.

This is a very real and present danger to our constitution, and it ain't coming from Al qaeda, as if it ever did.

News Analysis: GOP Threats to NY Times for Reporting on Transaction Monitoring Is Critical Threat to Free Press:

"It is hard to imagine that a group who has been so wrong about so many things could get so upset about someone looking over their shoulders. But that is just what is happening now that the Bush Administration and leading Republicans have criticized, and even called for a criminal investigation of, The New York Times for reporting on the secret monitoring of financial transactions across the globe.

If a terrorist group was so inept as to be previously unaware that the U.S. government was trying to monitor their monetary transactions, they probably were of little risk (like the Miami 'terrorist wannabes' who allegedly wanted to blow up the Sears Tower with their invisible bombs).

Are Americans so gullible that they believe that terrorists don't already assume that the U.S. is spying on phone calls and bank transactions? If so, let's just say that the terrorists aren't as dumb as everyone who believes that the NY Times' story gave information to the terrorists that they didn't already have. "