CNN/AP: House vote slaps news organizations

[DeepModem Mom]

House vote slaps news organizations
Resolution blasts stories on terrorist tracking program
Thursday, June 29, 2006

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House on Thursday approved a Republican-crafted resolution condemning news organizations for revealing a covert government program to track terrorist financing, saying the disclosure had "placed the lives of Americans in danger."

The resolution, passed 227-183 on a largely party-line vote, did not specifically name the news organizations, but it was aimed at The New York Times and other news media that last week reported on a secret CIA-Treasury program to track millions of financial records in search of terrorists.

Most Democrats opposed the measure, protesting language in it that asserts that the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program was "rooted in sound legal authority" and that members of Congress had been appropriately briefed on the program.

While the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal also carried stories on the program, Republicans singled out The New York Times....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/29/intel.leaks.ap/index.html

[Mythsaje]

1. And I'd like to submit a public resolution

that says that their criminal incompetence and/or negligence and/or complicity with a corrupt administration puts us ALL in danger.

It'll be interesting to watch the media start turning up the heat on them in retribution for this shit.

[napi21]

2. i think this was esolution and not a bill.

All they're doing is reving up their base again! Nothing is mandatory in a resolution!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Good, now impeach the moron who leaked

it... oops, that's **, right?

Never mind.

[lpbk2713]

4. More appropriate headline ....

Republican House further assails citizens' right to know.

[magellan]

5. Not a frickin' clue

The Repugs voted for this because they think they can fire up their base over it. And considering how dumb their base is, I'm sure that 33 out of 100 people dutifully believes the NYT are traitors.

But did any of the Dems have a frickin' clue that the article(s) gave away exactly nothing?

[Massacure]

6. Tee hee, Congress versus Media. This should get interesting.

[darkism]

7. What times we live in.

When the media is censured for DOING THEIR JOBS.

[kurth]

8. Is this the House of the PEOPLE??

What a bunch of whores.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. So where is the resolution condemning Karl Rove? And Novak?

And, for that matter, Cheney?

And WHY aren't our Dems fighting to get some mention of this possibility on the floor?

This should be the TOP story! Kick it! Rec it!