Generally speaking, CTH is against the Dept of Justice filing warrants and subpoenas against journalists. However, in this case the actions are warranted. If this was the Obama or Biden DOJ taking action against journalists, yes, CTH would support the govt side – on this specific point.
The issue surrounds four journalists for The New York Times who filed a public report that President Trump’s new Airforce One airplane did not have anti-missile defense systems at the time it was used in the trip to the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey.
Beyond the issue of the reported leak to the media, the FBI requested the NYT not to publish their article as it would compromise the presidential security detail in a designated hostile environment. The NYT refused to withhold their reporting and did so specifically with the intent on compromising the security of a United States President. There is no circumstance where that type of journalistic motive is okay; regardless of who is President.
From the Times perspective, their report reflected an opportunity to cast snark at President Trump’s decision to convert a gifted Airforce One from Qatar. Additionally, the New York Times knew their report would put the lives of those aboard the airplane at risk. The journalists went forward specifically knowing the report could lead to a severe security compromise.
NEW YORK TIMES – The Trump administration issued subpoenas on Friday to several journalists for The New York Times, after the news outlet reported this week on security concerns involving President Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One.
The subpoenas — which seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan on Wednesday — were an extraordinary escalation in President Trump’s efforts to threaten and intimidate independent news organizations.
In some cases, the subpoenas were delivered by federal agents who showed up at reporters’ homes.
[…] “Our journalists report the facts and advance the American public’s right to know how their government is operating and their taxpayer dollars are being used,” Mr. McCraw wrote. “This brazen act should be seen as nothing more than an attempt to prevent the public from knowing what is happening in their country by intimidating journalists from doing their jobs.”
The subpoenas contain few specifics, asking only that the journalists testify “in regard to an alleged violation of federal criminal law.” They were issued by Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan. Mr. Clayton, who leads one of the country’s most prominent law enforcement offices, was recently nominated by Mr. Trump to serve as director of national intelligence.
[…] The Times reported that the new Air Force One, a Qatari-donated Boeing 747-8, lacked some of the advanced security features of the older aircraft, including antimissile capabilities. Both articles cited sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues.
Before the Wednesday article was published, a senior official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted The Times to ask that the article be held, calling it an issue of national security, according to a person familiar with the conversation. The F.B.I. official spoke with a reporter and a senior editor in The Times’s Washington bureau; the official declined to explain the security issue when asked. (A spokesman for The Times, Charlie Stadtlander, confirmed the account.) (read more)
There is a point at which severe opposition to the President needs to be moderated in the interests of national security and common sense (decency). There was/is no value in publishing the article at the time it was made public, except to compromise the security of President Trump.
The escalating resistance to President Trump from American media is increasingly, intentionally crossing a line.
The Trump administration is right to take all appropriate measures against such reporting.
They will not be happy until he is outed, one way or another.
NYT did because they want the President dead. They don’t care about his life.
National security issue. The journalists and NYT is in big trouble.
The NYT also did not care who else was on the plane with the President. This includes the many ‘journalists’. You would think that the ‘journalists’ on the plane would be upset for putting their lives at risk. Since we are at war this reporting could be considered as treason.
Like Iran and other extremist regimes, the NYT and fellow journalists seem to be part of a death cult. Weird.
“National security issue. The journalists and NYT is in big trouble.”
That’s a logical thought.
However……Watch and see what kind of liberal judge gets this case (and that won’t be accidental or “random”) and how fast it gets tossed.
Leftists would sacrifice their own mothers if it meant they did something to aid in getting rid of President Trump.
When the President is overseas, near the country we are at war with, what could possibly go wrong with reporting alleged security weaknesses? /sarc
Agree. Fine line but the timing of their report smacks of colllusion or aiding and abetting an enemy. The NY Times could have waiting to put out their report once the President and entourage had completed its return to the U.S.A..
Sounds like maybe Kash is in a pickle.
I saw that he was summoned to the White House. What do you think is the problem?
Never mind, I know now.
And why is that? What else do you know? Or are you trying to sound important or something else?
inquisitive minds want to know
Because Kash was about to leave town to go see his squirley girlie and was summoned by Trump to return to the White House. The FBI leaks to the NYT. Trump wants to know who leaked the info. But, the NSC also leaks to the NYT. Sounds like either fib leaked it or NYT is blaming Kash.
The TDS at the New York Times is all that rag has left.
This behavior and pretense from the NYT is appalling to read about, even compared to the absolute garbage that outlet publishes daily.
“We were just reporting on security concerns.”
No, not all folks are as insufferably dense as your subscribers.
“We were just reporting on security concerns.”
They were deliberately reporting knowing it would *CREATE* security concerns.
Freedom of the press was not intended for this media that has become an arm of a political party.
>> There is a point at which severe opposition to the President needs to be moderated in the interests of national security and common sense (decency).
I imagine the national media would agree with this statement so long as the phrase “national security and common sense (decency)” refers to their limited interpretation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and does not include the preservation of the Republic.
I want the leakers. Put the reporters in jail until we get names. And fine The Times $1,000,000 per day until we get names.
Then jail the leakers.
So they are so filled with hate and so blinded by ideology that they will take out pilot, crew, accompanying staff, guests, and journalists in the process.
Unbelievable.
These people are sick. Recall what they did to get Trump out of office. Created a virus and unleashed it on the world. 5 dem lead states sacrificed the elderly to have a nice death count in the corner of your TV screen. A plane full is nothing to them at all.
“The NYT refused to withhold their reporting and did so specifically with the intent on compromising the security of a United States President.”
END NYT ACCESS TO WH PRESS BRIEFINGS & AF1
Maybe I misread the article but WHY would the FBI even talk to journalists. I fault the FBI. Kash, you have some housecleaning to do.
Just a guess,
but the girlfriend and her communications
need to be investigated.
These 4 up against the wall
With all the ‘journalistic contacts’ out there…they can’t find out about Mitch?
I think the NYT should shoulder the extra costs and/of logistics involved with the alteration of Presidential travel plans.
Its just too horrible to imagine if something went ‘wrong’.
Hang the bastards.
This is a direct threat.
They endangered the president and others.
Lame-brains 😈👿 endanger planes ✈️
–as well as lives. 🤕
Was the information generally available or did someone provide to NYT traitors?
It was not generally available.
Asking for rationality from rabid presstitutes is a bit much.
And they deservedly should have the book thrown at them in this instance.
Surprising that they would start using the new Air Force One before it had all of its security upgrades installed. Maybe they were in some kind of pinch with the old ones needing to be serviced, then got that done in time for the return trip.
I think that’s how important the optics of his use of Qatar’s gift (indeed, entrusting his life) are for bringing Arab states into the Board of Peace and to eventually sign onto the Abrahamic Accords.
If you consider the enormity of all that Trump is attempting to accomplish… if he’s successful, forget Mount Rushmore–he will have earned to have his image on the moon!
Manhattan Court – will end up with the case dismissed. How about a Wyoming court? He’s their President too.
This reporting now makes it impossible for President Trump to use the newer plane until all security upgrades have been added. NYTimes KOOKS!
Forget the journalists- who told the President it was ok to fly in a plane without ant-missile defenses? That person is the real threat to his security.
I would not assume the NYT report is correct or truthful.
We really are in a tough place as a nation. The optimist in me wants to believe that “incidents” like we just read can be stopped. I’m just weary from the nonstop fuster of hate tossed toward the Trump family. I’m not surprised, unfortunately, that NYT would put fellow journalists in possible harms way. Abetting the enemy is mind boggling to me and all who read here. All those souls, traveling on AF1 could have been vaporized like TWA 800, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, children…sick, twisted NYT.
I wonder how they knew what the new plane was lacking.
Leaks
What on Earth!!!? These communists are a National security risk at the highest level. China, Iran ( now ) is less a threat than them. I mean that too on top of that how they influence stupid evil people ( division, chaos, murders, blind eye to the helpless), and innocent who do not know better. Round up the puppet masters hit them where it hurts.
Melania LOL she’s a trooper. Gotta love her.
…not a single one of those dead-tree media puppets have any real skin in the game…every one of them have the same scandal-mongering attitude of the “professors” that taught them. “We must organize the intellectuals and use them to destroy western civilization…” …that was the Frankfurt School mission from 1939 to right now… How’s it looking, campers? Like, just maybe, they did what they said they’d do? The unionized federal bureaucracy is the bitter fruit of their evil efforts.
It’s time to fry the NY Times and the guilty reporters who put the President and all those on board in jeopardy. No plea bargain for any of them.😡
A lot of things in the Air Force One press gaggle (that Sundance posted here) suddenly take on new meaning, like DJT pointing out that those reporters’ lives are endangered when the President’s life is endangered.
Now I wonder if the orders for the press to close their window shades (that DJT said he didn’t know about) would have been so they couldn’t see and report on USAF planes flying missile interdiction escort during that leg of the flight?
NO reporting of classified information is EVER OK, especially when LIVES of ANYBODY is involved.
Sundance, you need to massively qualify your opening sentence … because at the heart of the Media’s demand for total access to “information” and especially unfettered access at the Pentagon and Department of War Locations is their desire to obtain dangerous classified information that WILL COMPROMISE US Soldiers … today’s media WOULD RELEASE that type of information with ZERO REMORSE so they could create a crisis of confidence in leadership.
Without qualification your opening sentence is 180 degree contrast to your agreement with DoJ actions only because it was related President Trump.
Scum.
I want the head of the jackass that leaked the information… that leak was a treasonous act itself… TDS is hostile to our way of life and I’ve had enough of the childish hatful deceit
No, none, nada, zero, zilch reporters need to be on Air Force 1. They can make their own way to wherever our President is going
FISA warrants immediately