Friday, February 23, 2007

There They Go Again

The New York Times gives up more of our strategic secrets.  It reports, in part: 

The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top leaders of Al Qaeda in the Horn of Africa, including the use of an airstrip in eastern Ethiopia to mount airstrikes against Islamic militants in neighboring Somalia, according to American officials. The close and largely clandestine relationship with Ethiopia also included significant sharing of intelligence on the Islamic militants’ positions and information from American spy satellites with the Ethiopian military. Members of a secret American Special Operations unit, Task Force 88, were deployed in Ethiopia and Kenya, and ventured into Somalia, the officials said.The counterterrorism effort was described by American officials as a qualified success that disrupted terrorist networks in Somalia, led to the death or capture of several Islamic militants and involved a collaborative relationship with Ethiopia that had been developing for years.

More here.

Oh, do I long for the good old days when Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, punished such acts of betrayal.  And no, I am not joking.  This is a wholly gratuitous assault on our national security by the reckless Times corporate management.  There is simply no public interest in disclosing any of it.  For all the liberal talk about the need to build coalitions and work more closely with other countries, when we do the Times and media outlets like it are the first to try to destroy those relationships.  The Washington Post did the same with black sites in Europe.     

02/23 10:25 AM