New York Times Complicit in Treasonable Behavior

Editor Byron Calame, New York Times

The Watergate scandal was about the cover-up in the White House of a failed politically inspired burglary. A President was forced to resign for the first time in our history.

But the White House has taken us into WAR to rid the world of an imminent threat that was not there. Thousands of our young men and women have died and thousands more wounded that the White House does not want interviewed nor seen. Many thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians have been killed--moderate estimates are in the range of 20 to 30 thousand.

Now we have another scandal originating in the White House, whatever it is called: Weaponsgate, CIAleakgate, WMDgate, Plamegate. Moreover the New York Times is itself complicit in reporter Judith Miller's willing to offer cover to persons involved. Not to speak of the front page certainties of WMD Miller repeatedly offered to Times readers in the run up to the war.

This scandal of hiding and protecting known false evidence and punishing anyone who blows the cover is of an entirely different magnitude. War. Thousands of deaths. Misleading the American people. Is anything bigger than this?

If to take our country into an unnecessary and illegal war is not treasonable behavior, what is?

The New York Times helped this White House sell this war. Would not any media observer conclude that the New York Times has been complicit in treasonable behavior?

Comment invited.