Quote Originally Posted by Aenlic
Please look up a few posts, Lemur. I spelled it all out. On the same day, let me repeat that for clarity... on the same day that the NY Times published their story, both the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times published similar stories with the same basic content but different headlines. The WSJ even titled their story "U.S. Treasury Tracks Financial Data In Secret Program" and yet, only the NYT is called traitorous and accused of playing partisan political games. It would be funny if it weren't so disgusting. Clearly the partisan political games are coming from the other direction, when one paper gets singled out and a paper which published the same thing on the exact same day, but which happens to mostly support Bush and is seen as conservative, is just given a pass. It couldn't possibly be any more blatantly partisan - on the part of the Bush adminstration and their lockstep political toadies, that is.
I made it quite clear that a dissaprove of any media source releasing legal and necessary United States secrets. If there are additional media sources that have published this information simultaneously, then they hold the same obligations regardless of party affiliation. However, if right-wing elements released the information simultaneously as you claim, then I suspect an error in the specificity of your claim here. Why? If right-wing media were leaked to simulataneously, and the administrations pursues only the NY Times, then that would indicate a absolutely fool-hardy political error: it would show that that administration approved the leak but is attempting to burn only the NY Times. This would be too obvious and thus too politically dangerous if it were true.