Friday, July 07, 2006

Did the NYT Interrupt NY Terrorism Investigation?

A.J. Strata writes that it seems very likely that today's round-up of terrorists planning to blow up New York PATH tunnels this fall may have been one of several ongoing investigations disrupted by the New York Times' disclosure of classified intelligence programs. (Hat tip: Power Line.)

Today's New York Times headlines that the plot was caught in an "early stage," which begs the question, if the Times' disclosure forced law enforcement to move in and make arrests more quickly than planned, did we lose the ability to track and arrest additional terrorists?

What intelligence programs were used to catch the PATH terrorists? The NSA wiretapping program? SWIFT?

If this terror plot against New York had been able to go forward unimpeded thanks to the NYT's disclosures, the deaths of countless fellow New Yorkers could have been laid directly at the feet of The New York Times, as well as its partner in crime, The Los Angeles Times.

What other investigations may be going on which the New York Times arrogantly disrupted due to the disclosure of our classified intelligence programs, which were somehow both a big secret and "common knowledge"?

Which Americans are in danger right now thanks to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times?

Update: Hugh Hewitt points out on his radio show that The New York Daily News is also complicit in disrupting this investigation, publishing -- on the one-year anniversary of the London Tube bombings, no less -- details of an "ongoing operation" which had "been kept under wraps for months."

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