Here Is How You Do It

Hey folks,

The NYT should take lessons from Reuters, and their reporter Alan Elsner. In his piece this morning, White House kept "major program" secret he reported "facts" without violating the programs. In other words, he told the world that the Big Bad Bush administration is not playing nice with Congress, without putting American's saftey and security at risk.

According to the article, the Bush administration was running several intelligence programs, including one major activity, that it kept secret from Congress until whistle-blowers told the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, the committee's chairman said on Sunday.


Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, said on Fox News Sunday he had written a four-page to President George W. Bush in May warning him that the failure to disclose the intelligence activities to Congress may be a violation of the law.

That is all they {LWL} will need to continue to attach the President, "Violation of law" those magical terms that may or may not be true. I can hear some of them now, "How can we determine if you and your administration broke the law, if we do not know what you are doing Mr. President? We need to know what these programs are. Tell the American people how you are further stripping away their rights. Bla bla bla"

But the article itself is a clear example of how a major news agency, can and does break stories without destroying top secret information, putting America’s security at risk, and telling the enemy what we are doing. You read the whole article and it talks about the "Major Program", it tells you how Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, was upset that the White house did not inform them of a "major Program" According to Reuters, Pete Hoeksta said,

"This is actually a case where the whistle-blower process was working appropriately and people within the intelligence community brought to my attention some programs that they believed we had not been briefed on. They were right," said Hoekstra, a close ally of Bush.


"We asked by code name about some of these programs. We have now been briefed on those programs but I wanted to reinforce to the president and to the executive branch and the intelligence community how important by law is the requirement that they keep the legislative branch informed of what they are doing," Hoekstra said.

You see folks, you CAN do it. You can print a story without treason. You can tell the facts, without leaking sensitive information. It can be done.
Peter