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Jewish World Review June 28, 2006 / 2 Tamuz, 5766 Incident is only latest for terrorist-tipping Times By Michelle Malkin
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
The New York Times (proudly publishing all the secrets unfit to spill since 9/11) and their reckless anonymous sources (come out, come out,
you cowards) tipped off terrorists to America's efforts to track their financial activities.
Guess what? It isn't the first time blabbermouth journalists have jeopardized terror financing investigations since September 11, according to
the government.
I remind you of the case of the Treason Times, the Holy Land Foundation, and the Global Relief Foundation. As the New York Post reported
last September, the Justice Department charged that "a veteran New York Times foreign correspondent warned an alleged terror-funding
Islamic charity that the FBI was about to raid its office — potentially endangering the lives of federal agents." Times reporter Philip Shenon
was accused of blowing the cover on a December 14, 2001 raid of the Global Relief Foundation.
"It has been conclusively established that Global Relief Foundation learned of the search from reporter Philip Shenon of The New York Times,"
U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald wrote in an Aug. 7, 2002 , letter to the Times' legal department.
Shenon's phone tip to the Muslim charity (which occurred one day before the FBI searched the foundation's offices), Fitzgerald said,
"seriously compromised the integrity of the investigation and potentially endangered the safety of federal law-enforcement personnel." The
Global Relief Foundation wasn't some beneficent neighborhood charity sending shoes and Muslim Barbie dolls to poor kids overseas. It was
designated a terror financing organization in October 2002 by the Treasury Department, which reported that GRF "has connections to, has
provided support for, and has provided assistance to Usama Bin Ladin, the al Qaida Network, and other known terrorist groups."
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Shenon's then-colleague, Judith Miller, had placed a similar call to another Muslim terrorist front financier, the Holy Land Foundation, a few
weeks before Shenon's call to the GRF. She was supposedly asking for "comment" on an impending freeze of their assets. According to
Fitzgerald in court papers, Miller allegedly also warned them that "government action was imminent." The FBI raided the Holy Land
Foundation's offices the day after Miller's article was published in the Times.
Oh, and while they continue to sabotage terror financing investigations, the blabbermouths of the Times should be reminded — as the
conservative bloggers Bill Keller despises so much are doing — of their own call in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 for vigorous
counterterrorism measures to stop the bankrolling of terror:
"The Bush administration is preparing new laws to help track terrorists through their money-laundering activity and is readying an executive
order freezing the assets of known terrorists. Much more is needed, including stricter regulations, the recruitment of specialized investigators
and greater cooperation with foreign banking authorities. There must also be closer coordination among America's law enforcement, national
security and financial regulatory agencies."
"Much more is needed?" Right. And when the Bush administration came through, the Times stabbed them, and us, in the backs. The lesson is
clear. When terror strikes, don't believe a word the know-it-all Times prints. They are opportunistic hindsight hypocrites who endanger us all.
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