Today's Weekly Standard blog points out that the New York Times has once again compromised the safety of those trying to ensure America's security in order to print a news story. In discussing the secret air war against high value Al Qaeda targets in Pakistan, the New York Times reveals the location of the secret base the predator drones are operating from. Evidently, the C.I.A. recently added a second secret base for the predator drones, and the New York Times chose to reveal that location.
In its article, the Times criticizes some of the mistakes made in the carrying our of the drone predator missions. Anyone who has ever been involved in a war understands that mistakes will be made. It is unfortunate that the Times chose to release classified information and then criticize a program that has successfully dealt with terrorists. If we had a justice department that took the threat of terrorism seriously, the newspaper would be charged with leaking classified information. It is truly sad that this is not the first time the New York Times has put reporting a story over the security of the nation. You notice that when their reporter was kidnapped, they did manage to keep the story silent. It's a shame they didn't have enough respect for their country to do that in this case.
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