Sen. Accuses Times of Endangering U.S.

Senator John Comyn (R-TX) has taken the bit in his teeth and is calling an ugly spade an ugly spade – in this case the palpable aid and comfort to the enemy rendered by the NYT and the betrayer(s) who gave them the information to blow the cover of the NSA surveillance efforts in the war on Islamofascist terror – in at least the partial interest of selling some books (as previously noted in an earlier post).

A Republican senator on Saturday accused The New York Times of endangering American security to sell a book by waiting until the day of the terror-fighting Patriot Act reauthorization to report that the government has eavesdropped on people without court-approved warrants.

“At least two senators that I heard with my own ears cited this as a reason why they decided to vote to not allow a bipartisan majority to reauthorize the Patriot Act,” said Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas. “Well, as it turns out the author of this article turned in a book three months ago and the paper, The New York Times, failed to reveal that the urgent story was tied to a book release and its sale by its author.”

Tell it like it is!

Times reporter James Risen, who wrote the story, has a book “State of WAR: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration,” coming out in the next few weeks, Cornyn said. “I think it’s a crying shame … that we find that America’s safety is endangered by the potential expiration of the Patriot Act in part because a newspaper has seen fit to release on the night before the vote on the floor on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act as part of a marketing campaign for selling a book,” Cornyn said.

So much for “news fit to print”.