Disgusting.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/comments/2017...ndrea.html

Quote:Iran has been one of the hardest targets for the C.I.A. The agency has extremely limited access to the country — no American embassy is open to provide diplomatic cover — and Iran’s intelligence services have spent nearly four decades trying to counter American espionage and covert operations.

The challenge to start carrying out President Trump’s views falls to Mr. D’Andrea’s, a chain-smoking convert to Islam, who comes with an outsize reputation and the track record to back it up: Perhaps no single C.I.A. official is more responsible for weakening Al Qaeda.
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The C.I.A. declined to comment on Mr. D’Andrea’s role, saying it does not discuss the identities or work of clandestine officials. The officials spoke only on the condition of anonymity because Mr. D’Andrea’s remains undercover, as do many senior officials based at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Va. Mr. Eatinger did not use his name. The New York Times is naming Mr. D’Andrea’s because his identity was previously published in news reports, and he is leading an important new administration initiative against Iran.

The "previously published article" had nothing to do with his role here. They basically put this guys life in danger. wtf is wrong with the NYT? wtf is wrong with the leakers?

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Honestly. Its a crime. We have the means. Its a real legit national security issue and a matter of life and death. Bug phones. Detain and question co-conspritors in the crimes (reporters). Float fake info to test for leakers. Im fine with you reporting "news" and stating your opinions on anything and everything. I draw the line at putting peoples lives at risk who are trying to protect us from harm.

Detain this writer. Ask for his sources and when he refuses, leave him in jail until he complies. He is free to go the moment he complies---or he can stay in jail until he dies. Either way, America wins.

Remember when the libturds got butthurt over Valerie Plame?

But they’re going to comment on anything done by Trump?

Quote:In an article published Friday, The New York Times outed the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) top spy overseeing the organization’s efforts in Iran. The paper justified its outing of the undercover CIA spy and his role within the agency by saying it was necessary since the agent is “leading an important new administration initiative against Iran.”

Yes. That really happened.

In an article entitled “C.I.A. Names New Iran Chief in a Sign of Trump’s Hard Line,” the newspaper of record revealed that Michael D’Andrea, who previously led the hunt for Osama bin Laden, will now be in charge of the agency’s operations in Iran.

As the Times explained in its report, Iran is “one of the hardest targets” for the CIA to keep tabs on.

“The agency has extremely limited access to the country — no American embassy is open to provide diplomatic cover — and Iran’s intelligence services have spent nearly four decades trying to counter American espionage and covert operations,” the article noted.

So the Times has apparently made it the newspaper’s mission to make the agency’s work much more difficult and far more dangerous by publicly identifying the man in charge of its covert operations in the Persian country. The paper’s rationale? The report’s authors claimed that because the newspaper already outed D’Andrea in 2015 as the official in charge of a CIA drone program, ignoring desperate pleas from the CIA at the time to keep his name secret in order to protect both the agent and overall national security, it was kosher to out him as the agency’s new Iran chief in 2017.

https://thefederalist.com/2017/06/02/new...hief-iran/

If your name is on that article, or if you approved publishing it, you should be in jail. Good people die over this sort of liberal bulljunkie.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/publi....html?_r=1

And no more public editor to question them.

"There probably hasn’t been a time in recent American history when the role of the media was more important than now. The Trump administration is drowning in scandal, the country is calcified into two partisan halves. And large newsrooms are faced with a choice: to maintain an independent voice, but one as aggressive and unblinking as the days of Watergate. Or to morph into something more partisan, spraying ammunition at every favorite target and openly delighting in the chaos.
If I think back to one subject I’ve harped on the most as public editor over the last year, this is probably it. Digital disruption and collapsing business models get all the attention, but the prospect of major media losing its independence, and its influence, ranks equally high among the industry’s perils. Derision may feel more satisfying, but in the long run stories that are measured in tone are more powerful. Whether journalists realize it or not, with impartiality comes authority — and right now it’s in short supply."

Couple of good comments to the article:

"As a 50+ year reader of the NYT no one has to tell me the paper has changed. Sure the industry has undergone fundamental realignment but the NYT has done something else. It has identified itself with one ideology and bends itself into pretzel shapes to accommodate those views, e.g. the filibuster. The public editor at least provided some balance on certain issues. Probably for financial reasons but also ideological the PE had to go. No room here for dissenting views. Too bad. The NYT was a great paper but now it is merely a mouthpiece for the progressive wing of the Democratic party and the monied elites that support it."

"Another step, it seems, in the progression away from journalism toward "content creation". Not only is the public editor being eliminated, so are a raft of copy editors. By replacing journalistic inquiry and responsibility for standards with a commenting public, the times showings so many other Internet websites in being a place for opinion making and gossip, however much more polished it may seem."