The New York Times is under heavy fire from the Administration and GOP for publishing specific details about a federal surveilance program designed to watch where terrorist money is going.
Specific details about the program were published last week and revealed the entire program in detail, negating the government of another tool to track terrorist money around the world.
It's no secret that the government was watching specific transactions: it said so itself. But specific details about how they did it were kept under wraps to keep the terror money-handlers guessing as to how it was being watched. Now everyone knows the details if they read the Times.
It was enough to know that the government was watching, but that wasn't good enough for the Times.
It's being said that the information was leaked, so there will be another costly investigation into who did it and why. Some Times people will probably go to jail to protect their sources.
And al-Qaeda money will go off the radar screen. It's too bad that this paper will publish anything to waylay the current government, including revealing information that has helped to monitor terrorist financial transactions. Their open partisanship is disappointing.
If this was a liberal Democratic government asking them to kill this story, they would have done it in a heartbeat, but because the government is under the control of the other side in an election year, they published in a heartbeat.
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