The NY Times is back with another front page story

Here is a good cartoon. Lies, dammed lies and The NY Times.

The NY Times is losing readers and posting financial losses. Yet, they are still running incomplete stories based on leaks of classified information.

See "New York Times Leaking Classified -- and Doctored? -- Information, Again " by Mario Loyola:

"I would just like to point out that the New York Times appears to have doctored the slide referred to in this brilliantly well-timed bit of election propaganda by removing the classification markings which are invariably found at the top and bottom of these slide (even when they are unclassified and this one was classified, as Central Command has already confirmed).

I want to know whether there is any level of national secret the Times is not willing to betray for the political advantage of its pet causes.

And I would like to know what else they may have doctored on the slide.

And while we're at it, I would love to understand why the law doesn't prohibit the propagation of strategic national secrets in wartime which has always been understood as treason."

A Return to the New York Times' SWIFT Disaster By Austin Bay makes a good point:

"The New York Times calculates it can defend itself against criminal charges involving the publication of classified material. Times editors intend to play "media martyrs" defending the First Amendment against a "government attack on a fundamental right." But we must speak truth to media as well as government and corporate abuse of power."

First, prosecute the leakers. Second, throw the NY Times reporter in jail until he releases the name of the person who is harming national security.