Down With The New York Times

Via Hugh Hewitt, a testimony excerpt from Stuart Levey, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department of the Treasury before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations:(My key points.)

1)"Much has been said and written about the newspapers’ decision to publish information about this program. As a government official, I must first point out that the newspapers almost certainly would not have known about this program if someone had not violated his or her duty to protect this secret." (Hang 'em high.)

2)"We urged that the story be held for one reason only: revealing it would undermine one of our most valuable tools for tracking terrorists’ money trails.In a series of sober and detailed meetings over several weeks, we carefully explained the program’s importance as well as its legal basis and controls. We strongly urged them not to reveal the source of our information and explained that disclosure would unavoidably compromise this vital program."(What will they leak next???)

3)"Some observers have argued that the disclosure of the program did little damage because terrorist facilitators are smart and already knew to avoid the banking system. For two years, I have been reviewing that output every morning. I cannot remember a day when that briefing did not include at least one terrorism lead from this program."

4)"This disclosure compromised one of our most valuable programs and will only make our efforts to track terrorist financing --and to prevent terrorist attacks-- harder."(Thanks for potentially screwing us.)

I might not like flag burning, but I'd like to see the flames as the ship that is the NYT goes down for treason. Close them down. While we're at it, take Time Magazine too, they are directly responsible for how many,17?, deaths over their fake Koran flushing story.

H/T Spottswood @ The Red Voice