The New York Times Endangers CIA Agent

My (news)paper, the Boston Globe, picked-up a story from the New York Times News Service, a sister organization as the Boston Globe is owned by the New York Times, that told of a specific CIA Agent’s success in interrogating Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM), the most senior al Qaeda terrorist in U.S. custody in Cuba.

This was how the New York Times News Service explained using the CIA Agent’s name 10 times in the story . . . in the last paragraph of the story:

“General Michael V. Hayden, director of the CIA, and a lawyer representing (CIA Agent) asked that he not be named in this article, citing privacy and safety reasons. The New York Times, noting that (CIA Agent) had never worked undercover and that others involved in the campaign against Al Qaeda have been named in news articles and books, declined the request.”

Note that the New York Times does not say that this particular Agent had been previously named.

The CIA Director asked that the Agent’s name not be mentioned citing safety reasons and the New York Times declined the request.

The liberal extremists who dominate the mainstream media were apoplectic when an aide to an aide of the President forgot the day he told the truth about another CIA Agent who was not covered by the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 yet the most liberal newspaper in America declines a request by the CIA Director to not name an Agent who interrogated KSM?

Again, the extremists who dominate the print media show their colors.