Congressman wants to strip N.Y. Times' press credentials

[NVMojo]

By The Associated Press
06.29.06

Arizona Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth is leading a drive to revoke congressional press credentials for The New York Times, calling the newspaper's reporting a national-security risk.

Hayworth, running for re-election against Democrat Harry Mitchell, is circulating a letter among his colleagues calling on the speaker of the House of Representatives to take away the newspaper's credentials.

"The request does not come lightly, but in response to the Times' decision to repeatedly publish information detrimental to our national security," Hayworth wrote in the letter to Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.

In the letter, Hayworth cites the Times' June 23 story that revealed the existence of a secret government program to track terrorist networks through the use of international financial records.

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http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=17094

[muntrv]

1. Wall Street Journal published them too.

Don't forget to take their credentials, repuke.

[rocktivity]

2. There are no grounds--the secret program wasn't secret

It's had its own web site, and King George Two himself has mentioned it several times.

But I can't help but wonder why NYT didn't know that.

:headbang:
rocknation

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Apparently that guy is too out of touch and/or so blinded by rw rage to

know that none of that shit was a secret. He sounds like just another rw crank.

[Sherman A1]

4. Maybe

In November a few Republican Congressmen and Senators can be stripped of their Congressional Credentials, and with a little intestinal fortitude a certain occupant of a government housing facility nearby Congress can be stripped of his credentials as well and sent back to Texas or somewhere nice. Probably not, but one can hope.....

[Sapere aude]

5. No they publish information detrimental to the repubs

[karynnj]

6. Well the last time, John Kerry was on Imus

Hayworth was on earlier, when asked about him, Kerry said he was "Rush Limbaugh without the compassion".

[C_U_L8R]

7. or the viagra