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Treason - Bad Link Article

Sorry, gave you a bad link. Below is the TREASON referenced article from Time Magazine Posted Thursday, May. 23, 2002In the hours after September 11th, FBI agents in Minneapolis shared a macabre joke. For weeks prior, they had tried to interest FBI headquarters in Washington in Zacarias Moussaoui, now known as the 20th hijacker. They had begged FBI Headquarters to give them permission to seek a search warrant of Moussaoui's computer. They were denied. In their frustration, they joked that headquarters back in Washington must be infiltrated by agents of Osama Bin Laden. Why else would their work have been thwarted? This disturbing story is told in a 13-page, single-spaced letter written to FBI Director Robert Mueller by Colleen Rowley. The letter, portions of which TIME magazine has obtained, chronicle the efforts of Rowley, the Minneapolis Chief Division Counsel, to get the FBI interested in Moussaoui. Moussaoui was arrested in August on a visa violation after the Minnesota flight

TREASON

Treason is defined in Webster's Pocket English Dictionary as "giving your country's secrets to the enemy". Those leaking the NSA surveillance story to the New York Times, and the New York Times itself, are traitors. I am not sure who is worse. The Times sat on the story for over a year, claiming to do "follow up reporting" to their initial information. It only decided to go public with the story when one of its reporters quit and wrote a soon to be published book mentioning it. The Times had to go to press before the reporter's book made it to the bookstore. That is even worse. I would hope that the person who leaked the story at least had some noble intentions. The Times was worried about money and reputation, and was willing to betray this country for both. The war on George Bush by the left wing media has gone beyond the pale. What options did the New York Times have other than publishing this story and giving this information to the enemy? It had sev