I think the NY Times should be prosecuted for sedition!
The Bush Administration needs to seriously think about reinstating the Sedition Act of 1918 which is defined as:
The Sedition Act forbade Americans to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, flag, or armed forces during war.They should not be allowed to get away with revealing programs that our government uses to protect our country in a time of war. If this was WWI, they would be in jail, I have no doubt.
I agree with Rep. Peter King who was on Fox News Sunday when he said...
To me, the real question here is the conduct of the New York Times. By disclosing this in time of war, they have compromised America's antiterrorist policies. This is a very effective policy. They have compromised it. This is the second time the New York Times has done this.
And to me, nobody elected the New York Times to do anything. And the New York Times is putting its own arrogant, elitist, left-wing agenda before the interests of the American people. And I'm calling on the attorney general to begin a criminal investigation and prosecution of the New York Times, its reporters, the editors that worked on this, and the publisher. We're in time of war, Chris, and what they've done here is absolutely disgraceful. I believe they violated the Espionage Act, the Comint (ph) Act.
This is absolutely disgraceful. The time has come for the American people to realize and the New York Times to realize we're at war and they can't be just on their own deciding what to declassify, what to release.
I really hope that the NY Times is held accountable for what they did.
Apparently I am not the only one who is thinking this way because over at
RCP blog, Tom Bevin thinks they should be prosecuted too.
David Limbaugh asserts that...
...the Times has aided and abetted our terrorist enemies in the war on terror. Its actions in exposing this program might very well result in the loss of American lives through attacks that could have been prevented had the existence of the program not been disclosed to the enemy. If so, blood will be on the Times's vainglorious hands.
I'll be watching to see what happens.
