WTF Is It Now?!?

Nuking the messenger

The White House should focus on who leaked information on its secret international banking surveillance program rather than on the newspapers that reported it, NYC Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said yesterday.

"What I'm surprised about is the lack of focus or attention" on those leaking the information, Kelly said. "It seems to be a whole new cavalier attitude out there, in terms of people who are required to keep secrets, who give secrets out apparently with impunity."

He called for a probe into the identities of the sources.

Reports were printed by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, but Washington's harshest criticism was aimed at The NY Times.

"It's a monstrous charge for the White House to suggest that the press is essentially aiding and abetting the enemy. But where's the evidence?" - Dan Froomkin.