OhhJim quote
Why on earth wouldn't the administration bring charges against the NYT, if they could make their case?
In other words, if the administration doesn't bring charges against the Times, it is an admission that they realize the Times didn't violate any laws.
Fish or cut bait. No more whining, let's see some action.
Response
A very good statement. As a matter of principal, I would like to see a prosecution.
However, as a matter of reality, I doubt I would even bother. Christians, conservatives and Republicans have not faired well in the courts. The Bible says Christians should resolve differences without going to court.
Even lawyers will tell you that the courts come out with some weird rulings. I believe this is because they are a secular body. An example of this is the ruling that the president did not have authority to establish military tribunals. They said congress did have the authority, so that will probably be another opportunity for Republicans to prove democrats hate America (if Republican are in power). I considered this to be a trivial ruling, and several justices pointed out that this was just another impediment to the president providing security for Americans.
I particularly disliked the mention of the Geneva Convention. If there was ever a document that was stupid, the Geneva Convention would have to be that document. If the document had any validity or power it would have been used to eliminate the entire Islamic religion for supporting "martyrs that murder". The only use of the Geneva Convention has been to cripple the ability to wage war.
Atrocities are a part of war, not an acceptable part of war, but certainly not something to be used as a political weapon. Every war ever waged has had civilian deaths, rapes, murders, coverups, etc. The only reason they were not reported in WW II was that there was total censorship.
A special set of law called the Uniform Code of Military Justice exists in parallel to Civil Law to handle the special situation of war.
The Uniform Code of Military Justice does not give the Atheistic liberal news media and democrats a way to use the Iraq war as a political weapon so they use the Geneva Convention as a bases of how a war should be fought.
If anyone wants to state that America should never enter into any war, I will buy that. War is ugly and should never be entered into lightly but once entered into, it must be carried to completion.
Probably better to let the NYT Treason be tried in the court of public opinion than a courtroom.
What would be interesting would be a reading in congress of a list of mistakes and misrepresentation of the news media for the previous day. However, that would probably leave no time for other business. Whoa, that could be a good thing too (no time for other business).