For the far-left NY Times (al-Jazeera west), nothing is as sacred as its right to free speech, and that includes national security. But the fervor with which the it leaks sensitive information is manic. How else to explain its behavior?

First, it published information about an extremely valuable program designed to intercept enemy communications (you know, the communications used by an enemy that murdered nearly 3,000 civilians just a couple of miles from the Times's own headquarters). Now, it refused a government request to hold back a story revealing another successful program, this one designed to track enemy financial flows (you know, the funds used by an enemy that murdered nearly 3,000 civilians just a couple of miles from the Times's own headquarters).

Traitor (if treason is defined as activity that helps an enemy make war against or seriously injure one's own country, then this term is not used hyperbolically) "Pinch" Sulzberger had a choice to make: there was news of WMD found in Iraq, and there was this financial surveillance story. He made a deliberate choice to bury the WMD news and prominently splash the surveillance story. Americans ought to have no doubt as to which side he is on in this war.

Of course, Sulzberger and his lapdog Keller will say it's all about the public's right to know. What about the public's right not to be slaughtered by Muslim fanatics? And to the extent the Times's high-minded reporting on other corporations' greed at the expense of the greater good, the Times itself shows that its own self-aggrandizement is more important than the greater good of keeping the sources and methods (which it admits are all legal) of our anti-terrorism effort secret.

It is disastrous for the American Left to have so consumed itself with Bush hatred of the most vitriolic sort that, to them, his personification of America is such that they would seek to harm our country in order to harm him. This obssession of the Left must be exorcised, for its own sake and for America's security. As for the Times, its actions are simply unconscionable.

UPDATE: I should add that I don't think the NY Times ought to be prosecuted. Whoever leaked the information to the press, however, should be charged, convicted and strung up.

Andrew McCarthy has a great summation here.

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