PLAYING THE JUDAS GAME
- From: "jose" <josefsoplar@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Dec 2005 10:44:49 -0800
PLAYING THE JUDAS GAME
BUSH TAKES OFF THE GLOVES
By: Phil Brennan
If you spot a mushroom cloud looming over a nearby city thank the media
- some of them have now done everything possible to make it happen. If
this were fiction, most people would shrug it off as improbable. How
could members of the press openly betray their nation in such an
horrendously important matter by blatantly undermining the government's
responsibility to protect Americans against a nuclear attack launched
within our borders.
Well it's not fiction. It's the bitter truth and it lays bare for all
to see the real nature of much of today's mainstream media. And it's
not a pretty sight.
I'm beginning to suspect that if many of those among the mainstream
press began publishing pictures of their editors in chief, it would be
an image of either Benedict Arnold, or even more likely, Judas
Iscariot.
In recent days we have seen two of the most egregious exercises in
media betrayal of the United States of America emerge from the fetid
swamps where liberal journalists lurk - in the first instance from the
pages of al Qaeda s chief propaganda organ in the United States - the
New York Times, and in the second, from the publication Laura Ingraham
derisively calls "MacPaper" - USA Today.
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, while searchers of the ruins of the
twin towers of the World Trade Center were still seeking to find the
bodies of some of the 3,000 victims, the Bush administration undertook
to monitor communications between al Qaeda operatives abroad and
suspected al Qaeda sympathizers in the U.S.
This was a supersecret program, exposure of which would for all intents
and purposes be rendered useless if brought to light. The New York
Times, in obvious pursuit of the twin goals of discrediting President
Bush as a means of giving the Democrats control of the Congress, and of
causing the United States to lose the war in Iraq by a premature
withdrawal of our troops, blabbed the story on its front page.
This set off a media and political firestorm over the utterly phony
issue of privacy - the liberals favorite battle flag when promoting
such things as the right of mothers to murder their unborn babies, and
the right of some Americans to betray their country unimpeded by
government vigilance.
And it all but gutted a vital weapon in America's national security
arsenal. But that's perfectly justifiable the Times and their army of
liberal apologists tell us - its all a matter of freedom of the press
and the public s sacred right to know, which translates into the
media's right to publish every damn thing they please no matter how
damaging it might be to the security of the American people. That,
after all, is allegedly how you sell newspapers or attract viewers to
your network news broadcasts.
The Bush administration stands accused by the Times and the rest of the
Marxist media and their Democrat champions on Capitol Hill of
"eavesdropping on American citizens - they never bother to mention that
these "American citizens" are suspected enemy agents and some even
non-citizens to boot - and of failing to obtain permission to monitor
overseas-to-U.S. communications from a special court.
They scoff at administration claims that the threat to the U.S. was so
deadly serious and imminent and the ritual of seeking and obtaining
court approval both cumbersome with the outcome often uncertain, that
they were forced to act as they did.
The crtitics ignore the very obvious facts that the U.S. is at war with
an enemy that had slaughtered 3,000 people on 9/11 and that wartime
requires swift and decisive measures, and the astounding success of
preventing any further 9/11s since 2001 - one sign the program worked.
According to the Seattle Times, author James Bamford, an acknowledged
authority on the supersecret National Security Agency (NSA), which
intercepts telephone calls, e-mails, faxes and Internet communications,
points out reasons why the President acted as he did, citing the fact
that the special court had repeatedly intervened unfavorably in the
administration's requests for wiretap permissions.
This, he said, explains why the president decided to bypass the court
nearly four years ago to launch secret NSA monitoring of the
communications of unknown numbers of Americans and foreigners inside
the United States.
"They wanted to expand the number of people they were eavesdropping on,
and they didn't think they could get the warrants they needed from the
court to monitor those people," Bamford told the newspaper. Bamford,
author of "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National
Security Agency" and "The Puzzle Palace: Inside America's Most Secret
Intelligence Organization," added that "The FISA court has shown its
displeasure by tinkering with these applications by the Bush
administration."
In other words, the matter was so urgent, and the outcome of any court
decision so uncertain, that the President was forced to fulfill his
obligation to protect the American people from another 9/11 or similar
terrorist attack by launching the operation.
The Times betrayal of the national security and the damage it did to
our safety was bad enough, but the action of MacPaper was not only
sheer and unadulterated treason - it also imperiled every single
American by exposing them to the real potential of a homegrown
potential nuclear attack - a potential that still exists today.
On December 22, 2005 USA Today had a Christmas present for al Qaeda:
the exposure of one of the most vitally important anti-nuclear terror
operations being conducted in the U.S. - the monitoring "of radiation
levels at over a hundred Muslim sites in the Washington, D.C., area,
including mosques, homes businesses, and warehouses, plus similar sites
in at least five other cities."
And it was all done ...gasp ... without telling the subjects they were
being watched by not having warrants issued that would have alerted
them. The fact that the monitoring was not only perfectly legal -
warrants were not required for monitoring radiation levels - but
desperately necessary in a world where there are such things as
"suitcase" nukes that could be in the hands of terrorists working
within our borders.
Wrote USA Today: "The question of search warrants is controversial,
however. To ensure accurate readings, in up to 15 percent of the cases
the monitoring needed to take place on private property, sources say,
such as on mosque parking lots and private driveways. Government
officials familiar with the program insist it is legal; warrants are
unneeded for monitoring from public property, they say, as well as from
publicly accessible driveways and parking lots. 'If a delivery man can
access it, so can we,' says one."
MacPaper uses Georgetown University Professor David Cole, a
constitutional law expert, to justify their contention that the
operation lacked legality. It cites Cole's claim that surveillance of
public spaces such as mosques or public businesses might well be
allowable without a court order but adds that's not true when it comes
to private offices or homes: "They don't need a warrant to drive onto
the property -- the issue isn't where they are, but whether they're
using a tactic to intrude on privacy. It seems to me that they are, and
that they would need a warrant or probable cause," Cole told the
newspaper.
They then allow Cole to compare the legality of an operation meant to
safeguard Americans from homegrown nuclear terror to that of using
thermal imaging technology to search for marijuana-growing lamps in a
home, a process the Supreme Court has ruled requires a warrant.
Looking for marijuana and nukes is comparable? C'mon, Let's get real.
Pot does not produce mushroom clouds.
Brian Roehrkasse, a Justice Department spokesman told CBS News, that
the administration "is very concerned with a growing body of sensitive
reporting that continues to show al Qaeda has a clear intention to
obtain and ultimately use chemical, biological, radiological and
nuclear" weapons or high energy explosives." He added that the
government "monitors the air for imminent threats to health and
safety," but acts only on specific information about a potential attack
without targeting any individual or group.
"FBI agents do not intrude across any constitutionally protected areas
without the proper legal authority," he told CBS News.
Although, boiled down, the substance of the two stories is essentially
a tempest in a teapot - who really believes that the alleged "privacy
rights" of people sworn to kill millions of Americans trumps the
obligation of the President to safeguard our citizenry - the import is
deadly serious. In both cases, these two newspapers went far beyond
their very pronounced opposition to the war in Iraq and reached to
embrace what can only been seen as acts of betrayal of their country
and its people.
They have now gone more than a step too-far. Along with the rest of the
Marxist-driven mainstream media they have for a long time been unable
to understand or sympathize with the mindset of the great majority of
Americans on just about every issue imaginable.
The disparity between what they believe and the beliefs of the
overwhelming majority of Americans has now reached the breaking point.
It's no longer a matter of disagreements over issues and creeds, or
simply a case of their having lost any credibility whatsoever - it's
now a case where they stand under the withering contempt of the people
of the United States. Americans should show that contempt by refusing
to buy either papers, boycotting their advertisers and asking the
editors of their local newspapers to stop using stories they generate.
And the United States Justice Department must go after the traitors who
leaked the information to the newspapers hammer and tong. If a special
prosecutor was need to investigate the silly Valerie Plame matter, they
need more than one to seek out the Judases in our midst.
President Bush takes off the gloves
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