DUmmie indicts the New York Times for treason.

[thundley4]

stockholmer (3,568 posts)

 
Diane Feinstein,a prime defender of the Surveillance State, renews her assault on the 1st Amendment

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/02/dianne_feinstein_targets_press_freedom/

The supreme Senate defender of state secrecy and the Surveillance State, California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, yesterday issued a statement to Australia’s largest newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/national/us-senator-calls-to-prosecute-assange-20120701-21b3n.html demanding (once again) the prosecution of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. To see how hostile Feinstein is to basic press freedoms, permit me to change “Assange” each time it appears in her statement to “The New York Times“:


The head of the US Senate’s powerful intelligence oversight committee has renewed calls for (The New York Times) to be prosecuted for espionage. . . .

”I believe (The New York Times) has knowingly obtained and disseminated classified information which could cause injury to the United States,” the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Dianne Feinstein, said in a written statement provided to the Herald. ”(It) has caused serious harm to US national security, and should be prosecuted accordingly.”


As EFF’s Trevor Timm noted, there is no sense in which Feinstein’s denunciation applies to WikiLeaks but not to The New York Times (and, for that matter, senior Obama officials http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/us/politics/accidental-path-to-record-leak-cases-under-obama.html?pagewanted=all ). Indeed, unlike WikiLeaks, which has never done so, The New York Times has repeatedly published Top Secret information. That’s why the prosecution that Feinstein demands for WikiLeaks would be the gravest threat to press freedom and basic transparency in decades. Feinstein’s decades-long record in the Senate strongly suggest that she would perceive these severe threats to press freedom as a benefit rather than drawback to her prosecution designs.

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Given all of that, it looks like the Observer‘s British neocon warcheerleading columnist, Nick Cohen, picked a really bad week to write an entire column mocking concerns that the U.S. would seek to prosecute and extradite Assange as “paranoia.” Only wilful ignorance would lead someone to claim that such evidence is nonexistent. Indeed, the evidence has long been overwhelming that the U.S. is eager to prosecute him and is actively seeking to do so. That’s because it’s filled with people like Dianne Feinstein, whose supreme loyalty is to the National Security State which enriches them, and who are plagued by a demonstrated willingness to trample on basic Constitutional protections in order to protect it.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002901092

The head of the US Senate’s powerful intelligence oversight committee has renewed calls for (The New York Times) to be prosecuted for espionage. . . .

”I believe (The New York Times) has knowingly obtained and disseminated classified information which could cause injury to the United States,” the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Dianne Feinstein, said in a written statement provided to the Herald. ”(It) has caused serious harm to US national security, and should be prosecuted accordingly.”

Even that statement would be true.

snot (7,336 posts)
1. Excellent post!

I remain stunned that other press organizations do not defend against these kinds of attacks. Are they so sure they'll always suck up sufficiently to t.p.t.b. to avert any consequences to themselves?

Cheering on treasonous actions is a DU daily occurrence.

Tierra_y_Libertad (34,093 posts)
3. Lady Di thinks it's dangerous if the people knows what the bosses are doing.

Dangerous to the bosses, that is.

Or she believes that giving information to America's enemies is treasonous.

[miskie]

So,

To make sure I understand this - The primitives like DiFi until she actually does the right thing - then they don't ?

Reading DU is like a trip to BizarroWorld. I can't help but to wonder what BizarroMiskie's DU name is..

[obumazombie]

So,

To make sure I understand this - The primitives like DiFi until she actually does the right thing - then they don't ?

Reading DU is like a trip to BizarroWorld. I can't help but to wonder what BizarroMiskie's DU name is..

A list of all our DU bizarro names would be interesting.

[DumbAss Tanker]

The Dems would never want the NYT prosecuted, it's far too useful for publishing the leaks they want leaked.

[thundley4]

The Dems would never want the NYT prosecuted, it's far too useful for publishing the leaks they want leaked.

White House leaks are something else that Obama is covering up.  Of course they will say that they have prosecuted more leaks than other administrations, but only ones harmful to Obama, not the helpful ones.

[Big Dog]

A list of all our DU bizarro names would be interesting.

Great idea! Consider it stolen.

[A7X_foREVer]

Great idea! Consider it stolen.

But if they got the names wouldnt people get banned?

[Skul]

It's Bush's fault...




...and the Jooooz.

[BlueStateSaint]

It's Bush's fault...




...and the Jooooz.

H5 for getting it right!