nice.

[sisyphusshrugged]

Peter King, the Long Island Republican who presided over New York's loss of funds from the Chair of the Homeland Security Committee in the House, wants to see the Times (but not, apparently, the conservative-leaning WSJ and LA Times or the Treasury Department's Undersecretary for Enforcement) to be prosecuted for treason for printing information about a US intelligence program (which was already public record)

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration yesterday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.

Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) cited the New York Times in particular for publishing a report last week saying that the Treasury Department is working with the CIA to examine an international database of money-transfer records.

King said he will write Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, urging that the nation's chief law enforcer "begin an investigation and prosecution of the New York Times -- the reporters, the editors and the publisher."

"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King said.

See, I love this story.

I love this story because Peter King thinks Tim Russert should be shot for giving Joe Wilson a free ride.

I also love this story because Peter King was a prominent supporter of a terrorist organization for years, until he decided that the terrorists were insufficiently supportive of Our Fearless Leader had a sort of racial personality problem thing going on

I also love this story because Peter King responded to the cut in our Homeland Security funding by threatening to drop the Watergate poker orgies his colleagues and their lobbyists indulged in onto the doorstep of the CIA unless the money is restored

I love this because Peter King sprinted to the front of the parade opposing the Dubai Ports deal, although he said on the teevee in the wake of the 9/11 Commission Report that actually checking cargo would be far too expensive and time-consuming (but we have C-TPAT, so that's OK)

Mostly, though, I love this because maybe now Newsday will stop endorsing the slimy putz. Yeah, he voted his district on impeachment. Get over it, please.

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[cosmicbob.livejournal.com]

And this is the shit I love:

"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King said.

"War"? Reeeaaalllly? When, exactly, Representative King, did the US Congress vote on and pass a Declaration of War? It's not war. It never has been war and it won't be war. One could describe it in the Truman nomenclature of a "Police Action", or maybe an "Anti-Terst Operation". But war it ain't. Even the Republican Congress didn't have the balls to declare a war on Iraq or Afghanistan. Because they will not take the responsibility for an actual war, as defined in the Constitution.

It is a war

[(Anonymous)]

The Supremes have found that congress did declare war. It was quite convinent.

He's not the only one;

[miltonthales.livejournal.com]

Curt Weldon (R-Able Danger) went ballistic on the News Hour tonight too. I was quite impressed with Eric Lichtblau's ability to maintain his equanimity in the face of Weldon's tirade.