What Is It About The Name “Times”?
Yet another newspaper feels obliged to compromise important programs:
A PROGRAMME of covert action against nuclear and missile traffic to North Korea and Iran is to be intensified after last week’s missile tests by the North Korean regime.
Intelligence agencies, navies and air forces from at least 13 nations are quietly co-operating in a “secret war” against Pyongyang and Tehran.
It has so far involved interceptions of North Korean ships at sea, US agents prowling the waterfronts in Taiwan, multinational naval and air surveillance missions out of Singapore, investigators poring over the books of dubious banks in the former Portuguese colony of Macau and a fleet of planes and ships eavesdropping on the “hermit kingdom” in the waters north of Japan.
Few details filter out from western officials about the programme, which has operated since 2003, or about the American financial sanctions that accompany it.
Yes, few details, so you feel obligated to reveal what you can to help out your bud L’il Kim, right?
In a telling example of the programme’s success, two Bush administration officials indicated last year that it had blocked North Korea from obtaining equipment used to make missile propellant.
It seems the ones doing the telling are you.
The Media. Remember, they’re on the other side. Well, that may not be fair. They live in such a la-la land that they don’t recognize that there is another side.
Media | Mr. Bingley | 
July 10, 2006 8:20 am
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They keep on doing stupid things, but the government may be starting to push back. Treasury is reportedly looking to declassify a lot of info about the SWIFT operation to show how bad the NY Times story hurt national security.