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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA062906.nytimes.EN.bbc4a6b.html
"Since no one elected the New York Times to determine
national security policy..." claims the neo-conniving
Mental D. Morgan.
And no one elected him the arbiter of free speech.
If someone thinks the New York Times is "liberal propaganda",
they are somewhere to the right of Pat Robertson.
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
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"The people we starve and torture have an unsociable
tendency to steal and murder. We think it's because
their brows overhang."
- Ann Druyan
"Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!"
- Hans Schemm, Bavarian Minister
of Education and Culture (1930s)
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Incarnate Word cancels NY Times subscription over story
Web Posted: 06/29/2006 02:25 PM CDT
Melissa Ludwig
Express-News Staff Writer
The Dean of Library Services at University of the Incarnate Word
canceled the library's subscription to the New York Times
Wednesday to protest recent stories exposing a secret government
program that monitors international financial transactions in
the hunt for terrorists.
"Since no one elected the New York Times to determine national
security policy, the only action I know to register protest for
their irresponsible action (treason?) is to withdraw support of
their operations by canceling our subscription as many others
are doing," Mendell D. Morgan, Jr. wrote in a June 28 email to
library staff. "If enough do, perhaps they will get the point."
Morgan did not return a call for comment this morning. The
university released a statement saying that Morgan had the
authority to remove the newspaper.
"The University of the Incarnate Word does not take an official
position on the recent decision to cancel the subscription of
the New York Times at the university's library" the statement
said. " This decision was made by the administrator in charge
of the library whose authority extends to the contents of the
library, and thus it was within his purview to make this
decision. The University is supportive of the First Amendment, a
free press and of the presentation of diverse points of view."
The move outraged library staff, who complained the dean was
censoring information based on personal beliefs.
Staff member Jennifer Romo said she and her coworkers were
shocked when they received Morgan's email.
"The censorship is just unspeakable," Romo said. "There is no
reason, no matter what your beliefs, to deny a source of
information to students." President Bush and administration
officials have lashed out at the media since last week, when the
New York Times, followed by the Wall Street Journal and Los
Angeles Times published stories exposing a classified program to
track terrorist financing by tapping international banking records.
They have aimed most of their criticism at the New York Times,
which broke the story.
At a speech in Nebraska, Vice President ***** Cheney singled out
the newspaper. In a letter to the New York Times posted on the
Treasury Department's Web site, outgoing Secretary John W. Snow
said the stories were "irresponsible and harmful to the
security of Americans and freedom-loving people worldwide." He,
too, singled out the newspaper saying it, "alerted terrorists
to the methods and sources used to track their money trails."
U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-New York, who chairs the House Homeland
Security Committee, said in a letter released Monday that the
attorney general should investigate the New York Times for
possible violation of the Espionage Act.
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives is debating a
resolution condemning leakers and the press for compromising
national security. The New York Times reported Tuesday that its
managing editor, Bill Keller, said in an e-mail statement that
the decision to publish the story was, "a hard call." He noted
that the Bush administration has launched a number of "broad,
secret programs" aimed at fighting terrorism since the attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001.
He went on to say: "I think it would be arrogant for us to pre-
empt the work of Congress and the courts by deciding these
programs are perfectly legal and abuse-proof, based entirely on
the word of the government."
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