Pentagon Considers Criminal Charges Against NYT For Revealing The Truth

[kpete]

Is telling the truth about Iraq a crime? The Pentagon is considering filing criminal charges in response to a report in yesterday’s New York Times that revealed the U.S. military believes Iraq is sliding closer to “choas.” Glenn Greenwald has the details -

Thursday, November 02, 2006
The crime of exposing the truth about Iraq

(updated below)

Two weeks ago, Dick Cheney said (while visiting with Rush Limbaugh) that things in Iraq were going "remarkably well" -- the same thing we have been hearing for several years now from the administration and their most rabid and dishonest followers. Yesterday, The New York Times published a chart prepared by the United States Central Command which demonstrates precisely the opposite -- namely, that the situation in Iraq is steadily deteriorating, not improving, and is close to full-blown chaos (this report received little attention because the media was focused on the much more important matter of John Kerry's joke).

Put another way, this report demonstrates -- yet again -- that the top officials in our government are blatantly lying about the conditions in Iraq and that that country is inexorably descending into civil war and complete chaos. What is the response of the administration to this revelation? As always, they want to criminally investigate and prosecute those who revealed the truth, as someone in the Pentagon shared with Fox News, which then dutifully reported:

The Pentagon is looking into how classified information indicating Iraq is moving closer to chaos wound up on the front page of Wednesday's New York Times, and is not ruling out an investigation that could lead to criminal charges.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226832,00.html

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/11/crime-of-exposing-truth-about-iraq.html
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/is-telling-the-truth-about-iraq-a-crime/

[drm604]

1. Which just proves the authenticity of the information.

Shouldn't the Pentagon be protecting this classified information by denying it's authenticity? By admitting that it's genuine aren't they accomplices to this so-called crime?