Insanity spreads .... as Freedom begins to circle the porcelain receptacle ...

[RLENT]

"Senator Joe Lieberman said that the New York Times may have committed a crime by accepting and publishing the State Department cables from WikiLeaks, and should be investigated for potential violations of the Espionage Act.

Speaking on Fox News on Tuesday, Lieberman told anchor Jenna Lee that WikiLeaks and its leader, Julian Assange, had committed the biggest violation of the Espionage Act in American history.

"Are other media outlets that have posted what WikiLeaks has put out there also culpable in this and could be charged with something?" Lee asked."

(At this point, someone please cue appropriate music from Todd Rundgren's 1972 Something/Anything? album .... personally, I'm thinking that "" might be the right one .... )

"Lieberman responded that the question raised sensitive issues, because "it gets into America's First Amendment." But he said that, since WikiLeaks had certainly violated the Espionage Act, it was a real question whether the Times had also done so by accepting it.

"I'm not here to make a final judgment on that, but to me the New York Times has committed at least an act of bad citizenship," he said. "Whether they've committed a crime, I think there's very intensive inquiry by the Justice Department."

The words highlighted immediately above are very, very dangerous words ..... and those who truly understand freedom and the danger of the state will understand exactly why ...

Joe Lieberman: New York Times Should Be Investigated For Publishing WikiLeaks Cables

 

[LDB]

Lieberman is correct. NYT is at best a terrible corporate citizen and at worst criminal. I don't always agree with him but in this case he is correct.

 

[cheri1122]

"Acts of bad citizenship"?
If that's illegal, there won't be enough jails to hold the perps!
I mean, allowing your dog to poop on the public sidewalk is an act of bad citizenship, IMO.
And what about folks who don't vote? Guilty of bad citizenship, no question.

That pretty much beats anything Bush ever said for sheer stupidity.

 

[greg334]

I think Cheri if the NYT was doing things under a clear agenda to tell the truth, irregardless of money, power or politics, than the claim that they did the right thing can be backed up. BUT they have a habit of actually crossing that journalistic ethical edge by focusing, spinning and publishing based solely on who is in the WH and how they benefit the agenda they work under. If there is anything close to a US Pravda, it is the NYT.

 

[RLENT]

I don't always agree with him but in this case he is correct.

.... to some folks, anything in a pair of jackboots and doing the goose-step looks good ....

 

[Turtle]

Saying that a newspaper committed an act of bad citizenship for publishing something is precisely the same thing as saying a US citizen is displaying bad citizenship for talking about something. That's one scary thought, and the fact that a US Senator, A.K.A., a federal legislator, actually uttered those words, and was sincere when he said them, shouldn't merely scare people, it should pіss them off to no end.