{"id":1113,"date":"2009-08-21T14:14:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T14:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2009-08-21T14:14:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T14:14:43","slug":"the_new_york_times_overlooks_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Overlooks The Small Issue Of National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2009\/08\/nytimes_puts_american_lives_at.asp\">Weekly Standard<\/a>&nbsp;blog points out that the New York Times has once again compromised the safety of those trying to ensure America&#8217;s security in order to print a news story.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.<\/p>\n<p>In its article, the Times criticizes some of the mistakes made in&nbsp;the carrying our of the drone predator missions.&nbsp; Anyone who has ever been involved in a war understands that mistakes will be made.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is unfortunate&nbsp;that the Times chose to release classified information and then criticize a program that has successfully dealt with terrorists.&nbsp; If we had a justice department that took the threat of terrorism seriously, the newspaper would be charged with leaking classified information.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; You notice that when their reporter was kidnapped, they did manage to keep the story silent.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a shame they didn&#8217;t have enough respect for their country to do that in this case.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Weekly Standard&nbsp;blog points out that the New York Times has once again compromised the safety of those trying to ensure America&#8217;s security in order to print a news story.&nbsp; In discussing the secret air war against high value Al &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}