Letter to the Editor

From Treasury Secretary Snow to the Editor of the NY Times:

The New York Times' decision to disclose the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, a robust and classified effort to map terrorist networks through the use of financial data, was irresponsible and harmful to the security of Americans and freedom-loving people worldwide. In choosing to expose this program, despite repeated pleas from high-level officials on both sides of the aisle, including myself, the Times undermined a highly successful counter-terrorism program and alerted terrorists to the methods and sources used to track their money trails.
Your charge that our efforts to convince The New York Times not to publish were "half-hearted" is incorrect and offensive. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Read the rest. I hope other lawmakers from both parties would take a stand against this blatant misuse of our freedoms.

Blogs for Bush thinks the death penalty is not too good for traitors.

This blogger thinks the Media realizes it screwed up.

And John McIntyre agrees, but thinks this could be an opportunity for Democrats.