Those creatures in the media who will see us die for their vanity and prejudices should be reminded of what this country used to do traitors.

Treason is treason. Does anyone doubt that FDR would’ve hestitated to arrest, prosecute and hang any private American enterprise, media or otherwise, that revealed either Magic or Enigma during WWII?

We better forget the Vietnam meme, it is not the rule it is the anomaly. I have no doubt the NYT and the LAT see this as their “Pentagon Papers” moment and the courts will back their right to publish these national secrets.

It is a bet I wouldn’t take but they did. Lets arrest, print and book these effin treasonous bastards, close down and confiscate the entire contents of all their offices and printing presses and let them spend every last dime trying to prevent Kellor and Pinch from the fate they were all too willing to let Judith Miller suffer, which she did. Make the bitches scream and let us see whether the have the courage of their convictions.

There is another stream we will have to address, sooner or later. If Americans feel threatened by or are killed and maimed because of these treasonous activities and the most the Feds will do is forever beg on their knees Americans involved in private business to cease and desist from their direly ruinous activity, how far away is direct action?

I only mention it because we already can see an imperious judiciary and an out-of-control legal system that abuses the safety, rights and even livelyhood of Joe Sixpack is now getting blowback big time. Imperious judges and sleazy/incompetent attorneys have been killed and wounded in ever increasing numbers. In the end, if the judiciary, or a private enterprise such as the NYT are allowed to harm America’s citizens by abusing the social compact between the citizens and their judiciary, they may have a lot more to worry about than a residency in a federal cellblock.

In this very city where devastation and destruction reached heights never perpetrated by a foreign enemy before on 9-11, the NYT is so effin arrogant to forget and deny that it ever happened and are facilitating a potential future attack. A second time will not be a charm and when the smoke clears, it will be too late to save them from an uncivil surviving citizenry. They would not be safe anywhere in this country.

Rick, so what?

Rick, When did you, a highly decorated member of the new pajama media, start to worry what the David Gerghens of the planet think? The deliberate acts of these three newspapers will probably at some point succeed in killing many American citizens. Even if not intended, what they’ve done rises to the level of ‘reckless disregard’ which gets you a manslaughter conviction. (Compare, this with Scoter Libby’s ‘crime’). Prosecutions must begin, and I start with a paper that should have known better - The Wall Street Journal.

Well, we’ve seen the ineffectual nature of those who predict martyrs. (see Davidians)

And If we don’t want the law to become meaningless, we must PROSECUTE it, that is why I support a prosecution, even a failed one.

For, if there is no EFFORT on the part of the nation to execute the Law, as it has been authored by the congress, then that law, by judicial stress, might become invalid, for those times when it might SUDDENLY become valid to the people.

While I certainly agree that we need to stem those leaks, there is a larger issue. The issue is one of responsibility we as members of a community have to protect each other to the extent that we can. When, for example, the NYT publishes timetables and troop deployment plans, it places Americans in danger.

Let me put it a different way. If a relative or friend of mine gave me classified information and I posted it on the Internet, could I get away with it? Somehow I doubt it. The idea seems to be that it doesn’t so much matter who leaks it as it seems to matter who it is leaked to which seems somehow goofy to me.

A report on the contents of a classified briefing by General Casey on troop drawdown plans in Iraq.

NOW I am REALLY getting angry.