Homeland Security panel boss urges criminal charges against newspapers

Homeland Security panel boss urges criminal charges against newspapers

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration on Sunday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.Rep. Peter King cited The New York Times in particular for publishing a story last week that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records.

Treason for doing their duty? Hmph. Somebodythinks that to be loyal to the US means to to not say a thing if the government does something illegal.

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