The Media---Pro-America or Pro-Terrorists

Lee Ellis

The New York Times keeps printing "news" that aids and abets those who hate the USA. The most recent example of this is the recent propaganda using a misleading story written by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau which reads in part, "Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying."

This has proven to be wrong, and is taken from a book to be released next week by a Viacom publisher. Viacom also owns CBS so one might well suspect that this will also be promoted on "60 Minutes." President Bush has explained his war-time powers, had alerted intelligence committee members of Congress and had also followed up with F.I.S.A. court warrants. These phone calls were NOT domestic, but rather were calls from the Middle East to America. It was revealed by NewsMax that Pelosi and Reid finally confessed that they had been informed by President Bush about these NSA wiretaps and had said nothing back then. Also revealed is that President Clinton had done many similar taps via a program called Echelon. Where were the leaks then to the leftist press?

This NYT "news" was the talk of Congress as the members discussed the renewal of the Patriot Act. Thus a filibuster against the Act renewal was started in Congress by Democrats and a few centrist Republicans

If the Patriot Act is not renewed in its entirety, our government will go back to the days prior to 9/11 when a policy wall kept our law enforcement agents from sharing information that might have prevented the attacks on America causing the deaths of 3,000 innocent American civilians.

This NYT article has also warned the terrorists who have kept in touch by telephone with their sleeper cell agents in America, that they are being overheard. They must now switch to a safer way of telling their agents when to set off bombs in our subways, buildings or other public places. Our ability to know about a terror act in advance so that we may help save the life of someone in your family has been denied.

This is not the first time that our media has purposely warned our enemies that they might be caught. In 1988, according to Ron Kessler formerly of the NSA, we were monitoring all of bin Laden's phone calls until the Washington Post blew our cover on this one. Thus, bin Laden was able to switch to a different manner of communicating with his people. As a result, we lost all contact with him.

If an agent of the FBI, CIA or NSA happens to learn that Zarqawi or one of his commanders is trying to reach an American here in the USA, do you really want this agent unable to listen in on this conversation until he can find some judge somewhere who can grant a warrant, knowing that this delay could cause us to miss hearing the orders being transmitted to a sleeper cell here in the USA? Do you really think that it better to allow this "civil liberty" to an American traitor rather than do what is necessary to save hundreds of innocent lives of men, women and children?

And if your answer is "I don't want an agent listening to my phone calls," what makes you think that any agent would waste his or her time listening to your boring calls? The only people who should worry about their calls or library visits being monitored are terrorists intent on killing Americans!

In other words, if the leftist Democrats and centrist Republicans have their way, our national security agencies will not be allowed to protect us until AFTER the terrorists have blown up the bus, train or plane in which we and our family are riding, or the school to which our children are in daily with their teachers. Perhaps it is a theatre, an arena for a sports event or our church or temple that is shattered by bombs or gas or machine gun fire. Only then can anyone who is still alive investigate?
This is NOT a military war like the past wars between countries where we fought a nation's uniformed soldiers who respect POWs under the Geneva Accords. These are thugs who actually get pleasure from killing or maiming innocent women, men and their babies or children.

If anyone really thinks that he or she has already lost a liberty or two due to the Patriot Act, (I cannot think of one that I have personally lost) then these people had better be prepared to live under Islamic rule, because this may well happen if we do NOT renew this important law and if the media keep aiding and abetting our enemies with propaganda labeled as news!

The old adage, "United we stand; Divided, we fall" is still true as is the WWII saying, "Loose Lips Sink Ships."

May I add, "Media Madness May Murder Many."?

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Lee Ellis is a retired journalist and narrator, formerly with both CBS and Gannett (USA Weekend). He was also a combat veteran of WWII, having fought in the South Pacific invasions. He had the pleasure of interviewing Ronald Reagan as an actor and then later working to help him become Governor of California. At the age of 80, he is keeping busy writing and doing free lance narrations for radio and television. He is an active member of Rotary and the VFW.

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