Give me liberty or give me...less?

This is simply amazing.

Sure, the information printed may make a dent in tracking down terrorists. But the fault is in whoever leaked the fucking information, not the New York Times. Go fix your own problems.

The NYT is a news organization. Does free press mean nothing anymore? If the government can dictate what the press can or cannot print, even if it does so by threat of legal action, then we not longer have freedom of information, speech, or thought.

It’s disgraceful to suggest that these liberties are expendable. Next I expect the White House to line up and spit on Ben Franklin’s grave.

GEORGE BUSH and Dick Cheney are calling The New York Times a disgrace, Republican congressmen say it is guilty of treason and demand the prosecution of the Editor, while a right-wing radio presenter suggests most of its readers must be “jihadists”.

They never need much encouragement to attack America’s most venerable title which is, at least in critics’ eyes, a beacon for antiwar sentiment.

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But this time the anger is palpably stronger. The newspaper’s offence was to publish an article revealing that the US Administration had kept tabs on suspected terrorists by tapping into bank records which track global transactions.

“What we did was fully authorised under the law,” said President Bush. “And the disclosure of this is disgraceful. We’re at war with a bunch of people who want to hurt the United States of America, and for people to leak that programme, and for a newspaper to publish it, does great harm.”    read more…