More on the Latest NYTimes Act of Treason

Leave it to an American soldier to comment eloquently on the New York Times' latest, and no doubt soon-to-be-successful attempt to get more of our soldiers killed by making it impossible for George Bush to prosecute the Global War on Terror. As most should now know, the Times, eager for yet another Pulitzer Prize for Treason, outted yet another perfectly legal, congressionally disclosed, and judicially vetted program for tracking the money of the terrorists, thus exposing another way we catch these bastards and giving them an opportunity to defense against it. Seriously, the way it's going, we're going to have to deploy a few Ranger units to the NYT building to battle the terrorist who are running this travesty of a paper. But let a brave soldier speak to the Times' disgraceful and potentially murderous management:

Congratulations on disclosing our government's highly classified anti-terrorist-financing program (June 23). I apologize for not writing sooner. But I am a lieutenant in the United States Army and I spent the last four days patrolling one of the more dangerous areas in Iraq. (Alas, operational security and common sense prevent me from even revealing this unclassified location in a private medium like email.)

Unfortunately, as I supervised my soldiers late one night, I heard a booming explosion several miles away. I learned a few hours later that a powerful roadside bomb killed one soldier and severely injured another from my 130-man company. I deeply hope that we can find and kill or capture the terrorists responsible for that bomb. But, of course, these terrorists do not spring from the soil like Plato's guardians. No, they require financing to obtain mortars and artillery shells, priming explosives, wiring and circuitry, not to mention for training and payments to locals willing to emplace bombs in exchange for a few months' salary. As your story states, the program was legal, briefed to Congress, supported in the government and financial industry, and very successful.

Not anymore. You may think you have done a public service, but you have gravely endangered the lives of my soldiers and all other soldiers and innocent Iraqis here. Next time I hear that familiar explosion -- or next time I feel it -- I will wonder whether we could have stopped that bomb had you not instructed terrorists how to evade our financial surveillance.

And, by the way, having graduated from Harvard Law and practiced with a federal appellate judge and two Washington law firms before becoming an infantry officer, I am well-versed in the espionage laws relevant to this story and others -- laws you have plainly violated. I hope that my colleagues at the Department of Justice match the courage of my soldiers here and prosecute you and your newspaper to the fullest extent of the law. By the time we return home, maybe you will be in your rightful place: not at the Pulitzer announcements, but behind bars.

Read the rest of this brilliant little missive here. And a well-deserved hat tip to Power Line for getting it on the web. We are awaiting word from the Justice Department about when and where the prosecution of Bill Keller and other GWOT war criminals will begin. Hell-ooo? Mr. Attorney General? You there???