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Bush Confused About Leaks
By Larry C Johnson
Tuesday, 27 June 2006 at 17:03
Bullshit alert! After watching George Bush and Dick Cheney weep and wail over the "damage" done by the New York Times for reporting that financial data is being dumped into the CIA as part of an effort to find terrorist networks, I kept waiting for Darryl Hannah to pop up and say, "Live, from New York, it’s Saturday Night". Does George have Alzheimer’s Disease? Has he forgotten that he used to love the New York Times? The only thing funnier is that most of the main stream media is reporting the antics of these clowns as straight up news.
I guess Bush and Cheney decided that leaks to the New York Times were no longer kosher when their go to girl, Judith Miller, got canned. Of course, Judy wasn’t the only member of the now "traitorous" New York Times to benefit from White House largesse. Doug Jehl published a piece on August 2, 2004 that exposed an Al Qaeda informant:
The unannounced capture of a figure from Al Qaeda in Pakistan several weeks ago led the Central Intelligence Agency to the rich lode of information that prompted the terror alert on Sunday, according to senior American officials.
The figure, Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, was described by a Pakistani intelligence official as a 25-year-old computer engineer, arrested July 13, who had used and helped to operate a secret Qaeda communications system where information was transferred via coded messages.
A senior United States official would not confirm or deny that Mr. Khan had been the Qaeda figure whose capture led to the information. But the official said ’’documentary evidence’’ found after the capture had demonstrated in extraordinary detail that Qaeda members had for years conducted sophisticated and extensive reconnaissance of the financial institutions cited in the warnings on Sunday.
The White House also used the New York Times to spread lies about the state of Iraq’s nuclear weapons program. Remember the September 8, 2002 piece by Michael Gordon and Judith Miller? They reported that:
More than a decade after Saddam Hussein agreed to give up weapons of mass destruction, Iraq has stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb, Bush administration officials said today.
In the last 14 months, Iraq has sought to buy thousands of specially designed aluminum tubes, which American officials believe were intended as components of centrifuges to enrich uranium. American officials said several efforts to arrange the shipment of the aluminum tubes were blocked or intercepted but declined to say, citing the sensitivity of the intelligence, where they came from or how they were stopped.
The diameter, thickness and other technical specifications of the aluminum tubes had persuaded American intelligence experts that they were meant for
Iraq’s nuclear program, officials said, and that the latest attempt to ship the material had taken place in recent months.
And who can forget that Vice President Cheney instructed his Chief of Staff, the intrepid Scooter Libby, to leak misleading portions of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate to the New York Times’ Judith Miller. NPR’s David Greene reported that:
Former vice presidential aide Lewis Libby, indicted for leaking a CIA agent’s identity, has testified that any classified information he may have leaked to a reporter was authorized by President Bush through the vice president. The claim is included in court documents released Thursday.
Libby told a grand jury that classified information he may have leaked to a New York Times reporter was authorized for use by President Bush, acting through Vice President Dick Cheney. Lewis is awaiting trial on charges that he lied to the grand jury, which was investigating the leak of the agent’s identity to the media.
We should also remember that the New York Times was not the only friendly outlet for planting "news". White House officials turned to Time Magazine and the Chicago Sun Times in shopping information about Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA officer. For this White House, leaking classified information that damages national security is okay as long as it can be used to save the President’s political reputation.
President Bush crying about "leaks" to the New York Times is like listening to former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss complain about sexual promiscuity. Sorry George, we ain’t buying your song and dance.
Forum posts
30 June 2006, 04:22
The dictator has gone to far. Now he is complaining?
30 June 2006, 15:16
this is the game.....the "times" has onlyrecently "leaked" enough info to give Americans the false impression that they are anti-bush!!!!!What about the 98% they have still withheld from all of us. This allows them to be painted as "liberal" and progressive when in reality what they are is Jewish/Zionist!!!When it comes to our Zionist controlled media,they are NOT liberal/conservative or progressive ,THEY ARE ZIONIST/JEWISH you fools!!We are and always have been under the control of these nefareous creatures who are experts at convoluted misdirection......
30 June 2006, 21:45
The New York Times along with the Washington Post, trivialized the importance of the Downing Street memo, the memo that basically told the world that Iraq was invaded under false pretenses.
The New York Times considers all those who believe that the 2004 election was hacked and robbed, such as the Federation of American Scientists, as ’loonies’.
The New York Times continues to belittle anyone who finds the Federal Government’s version of the 9/11 attacks to be untenable and logically inconsistent, including some of the world’s most eminent physicists and structural engineers, as well as 67% of the population of New York City itself.
The New York Times for years had a ’reporter’, in reality a paid White House goon, Judith Miller who wrote nothing but propaganda pieces masquerading as ’articles’.
The New York Times still calls this unjust, criminal war a ’War on Terror’, therefore the New York Times is still is doing their best to cover this war in favor of the Pentagon and the State Department.
Knowing all the above, how can anyone in the right mind call this powerful mouth piece of the US government a ’liberal’ newspaper?
Knowing as much as we do about the horrendous world events of the last five years, and knowing that the New York Times are as guilty as the Washington Post and the Washington Times in apologizing for this lawless administration’s corruption and incompetence, why would anyone in their right mind even bother to waste any more of their precious time reading a ’newspaper’ that is nothing but a propaganda rag for the US military and the US State Department?
When are the American people going to wake up to find that the US Mass Media is as guilty as this corrupt administration in deceiving us about this war and our foreign policy?
We don’t need the New York Times. These old newspapers are obsolete, and they know it.
We have the net, infinitely more reliable, infinitely more informative and infinitely more TRUTHFUL. When are we going to tell, not only the New York Times but the entire, treacherous US mass media to take a fucking hike and go to fucking hell?
2 July 2006, 10:31
Judy Miller, who was a reporter for the NYT, sold the Iraq war for Bu$hco on the front pages of the NYT and gave the story credibility week after week in the NYT....why Bu$hco is so mad at the NYT I can only guess, that should be their favorite paper, it has duped the public for Bu$hco day after day after day, maybe not as bad as Fox "news", but they certainly have been in there pitching regularly for the team Bu$hco.