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.
At what point will someone be held accountable. I am getting tired of all talk and no action.
vigilantism works
that ALWAYS DOES IN FACT WORK..
did I just let the cat out of the bag?
no, I just registered that Tokyo should be very afraid of Godzilla….because that monster IS very real.
God Bless America
“We are at war” – I bet a lawyer would argue that war has not been declared.
I do agree with you though…they don’t care who they hurt. As another commenter said, they should be blocked from WH press privileges.
Thankyou, John, for your very proper listiing of ‘journalists’. I admit to being overly sensitive to the mis-use of the language fomented by the progressive media. Reporters report; journalists journal; ie write their view/ impressions/opinions of events. Words have meaning only if you know their proper use.
“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.
The judges will face their own days for what they have been doing and from today on. That is a sure thing.
Leftists would sacrifice the monsters they create to destroy President Trump. In this case, it may well be the media monster .. reporter/reporters who can turn the tables on them. This is a bigger web than what it seems on the surface.
Same guy at NYT had no interest in covid, borders, election fraud.
Mrs. S, Whatever the NYTimes reported was already known to our intelligence and our enemies (or, perhaps, misdirection if Qatari 1 was actually outfitted with missile defense).
Obviously it was revealed AFTER President flew to Türkiye. So, did DJT play along with the “revelation” with substituting Old Air Force One and Sending Qatari 1 on to Mildenhall?
Too many chess moves here to be clear.
Great points
😂😅😅😅😅
There is the possibility this is bigger than just NYT reporters. There are a lot of people who need to be questioned. Reporters involved will have to provide specifics as to who/when/what/how the info was conveyed; including their tablets and phones be checked for messages, calls that may reveal anything/anyone related to this treasonous act.
That is why they using the same rhetoric and the outcry centers on what they always cite.
first line of defense – reporters are the shield for bad political, security, officials and business interest folks. In this case, they are going further; saying it is ‘intimidation” and “preventing the public from knowing what is happening in their country” ..
““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,” (McCraw)
“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.”
What a joke – these news organisations and their so-called reporters didn’t need intimidation to not report whatever their establishment rules are.
The NYT probably knew Crooks was intentions a week before the attempt and didn’t want to leak it out to soon.
When the President is overseas, near the country we are at war with, what could possibly go wrong with reporting alleged security weaknesses? /sarc
Why would Trump take a plane that was not outfitted with anti missile protection? Did he know?
Every time the President gets in a plane, I wonder whether anti-missile protection even exists. The Iranians took down an F-15 with a simple, shoulder-fired missile (sometimes called a ‘manpad’). What kind of defense could you put on a 747? I hope there is some, and it better be on all his planes.
Speaking of war…
US Launches Third Round Of Strikes On Iran After IRGC Closes Hormuz, Attacks Containership | ZeroHedge
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the Hormuz closure, saying it won’t allow any vessels to pass through until foreign interference ends, according to state-run IRIB News. The IRGC said it halted a cargo ship after firing a warning shot because it tried to transit the strait on Saturday despite being told not to, the outlet added.
The developments cast significant doubts over the potential for talks aimed at trying to reach a more lasting peace deal. The rhetoric had been getting more heated on both sides in recent days even as the two parties had suggested there was still room for conversations.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-rejects-us-talks-mojtaba-calls-vengeance-trump-warns-1000-missiles-are-locked
Trump has played this wrong from the beginning. Venezuela is NOT Iran. Capturing Maduro and then throwing money and fixing their oil production bought the friendship of the new bosses there. Iran doesn’t want our money or our friendship. They want our heads. They’ve spoken openly about the return of the 12th Imam– basically, the second coming of satan, which can only happen when blood is filling the world’s streets. Then the Imam will commence to lopping off the heads of all infidels…
Unfortunately, I have to say that you’re right. The advice and intelligence President Trump was given on Iran was bad. The question at this point is was he given the bad intelligence deliberately!
Next time we bomb targets in Iran, I hope they include any known locations of the state-run IRIB News. Cripple their propaganda sources forthwith!
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.
We need to change the FIRST amendment to REMOVE freedom of the press from it, and place it in a separate amendment by itself .
PRESS – should be better defined.
Most existing protections should continue for “normal news” journalists.
As for “CORPORATE MEDIA”, they should be highly taxed, highly regulated, and held responsible criminally and financially.
MEDIA that endanger lives should be shut down.
CORPORATE EUTHANASIA.
The New York Times should have been shut down long ago .
When it finally happens, make sure to delete their entire historical database.
CANCEL the nyt.
I would say keep the archive as an example of what the press should not be.
>> 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.
It would also .seem to endanger general airline travelers. One mistaken identity would murder hundreds of innocents.
And after AF 1 is destroyed and all aboard are dead, the senior editor at the Times would say something like, “But, gee, we didn’t think they would actually do it!”
Then in the back room they would be high fiving each other crowing,
“Yea, we got him.”
They would sacrifice all those people without a second thought if it would help them get the Bad Orange Man.
That was their hope. A missle would take out every one so they could then blame it on President Trump vainly accepting a plane with out proper protection.
Just ask Ron Brown
“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
END FBI AND NSC LEAKING TO THE NYT!
This seems to be persistent across multiple Administrations! Perhaps a clue that the Federal Bureaucracy should not be trusted as each individual is out for as much money as they can find!
The morals of journalists is astounding! Heads should roll imho!
They are journalisrs. They are Not reporters. There is a big difference based on the proper use and definition of words.
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.
No PDJT has housecleaning to do starting with Kash.
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!
This will give new meaning to barking at the moon.
Good One
Iran’s started shooting after PJT was in Turkey
Agree. When is an AF One not an AF One? When it’s not up to standard. There is more to this story than meets the eye.
Psy op.
Any type of aircraft that the President is in is considered AF-1. Even a little Piper Cub. But we’d never see that happen because of the obvious lack of protection. I once saw a video online about AF-1 that went generally into the protection system it had. It didn’t go into details, but I thought it shouldn’t have even hinted at this, because it got viewers thinking about things we wouldn’t normally consider, and that includes our enemies!
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.
.
Exactly.
Leaker trap was my first thought . . .
Exactly, who would allow PDJT to fly on this plane without anti-missile defense. Surely that would be the first question PDJT would ask.
Did they tell him?
Rumor mills are out of control! POTUS’s safety would never be compromised!
Butler, Pennsylvania would like a word.
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.
NYT-death throes….
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.
I noticed Melania didn’t go when other spouses did.
No spouse should be there. It’s a business meeting.
…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.😡
Immediate treason
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
I agree 100%, also get’em OUT of the Whitehouse. Put the rats across the street and MAYBE do a once a week briefing….or fireside chat.
Better yet, put them on the new “decoy” plane full of reporters, and POTUS go on and old AF1.
FISA warrants immediately
we always hear about how your freedom of speech is not unlimited…..i.e. yellimg fire in a crowded theater. we never hear about limits on freedom of press when its abused to cause harm.
with the current state of the demmorhoid party, im in favor of eye for an eye. dox the journos and publish their security details. do
unto them as they’ve done.
President Trump was absolutely correct several months ago when he revoked the NYT’s Whitehouse press credentials. They should have their credentials pulled. The Times got Leftist judges to order them restored. But the NYT has long been eager to undermine US national security.
This is the paper who published the Pentagon Papers, the WikiLeaks stories and any other classified data they could get their “anonymous sources” to steal for them.
Not much need to steal classified information if their IC contacts just hand it over. They are allies when it comes to attempting to destroy President Trump and MAGA.
You think the release of the wikileaks was bad?
“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.
What a colossal lie!
The reporters (and the moron editor in question) are doing their normal NYT jobs. What the administration needs are the sources. I remember times when a paper would fairly entertain a request from the gov’t to at least delay the reporting; in this case at least until the aircraft is out of the area. But the TDS factor has altered any civility, with a generation that only thinks about 6″ in front of their face as to possible consequences.
Millions of Democrat/communists in America want POTUS dead!
Most “leaders” of European countries want POTUS dead!
Mexico and Canada want POTUS dead!
Ukraine want POTUS dead!
Most of the Islamic world want POTUS dead!
NATO, EU, WHO, UN leadership wants POTUS dead!
Republican leadership and many members of Kongress wants POTUS dead!
CIA seems to want POTUS dead!
Many democrat Governors and Mayors of sanctuary cities want POTUS dead!
Hands down the best POTUS my 80 years has ever witnessed! Honors promises! Against whoever is against US!
One can be measured by their enemies in life. Such as how President Trump has unequivocally demonstrated.
The most transformative President in living memory. Godspeed Donald J. Trump, you fight for all of us.
Greenlight?
They will continue till he’s dead,and Vance gone would be the cherry on the sundae, and any collateral damage would be blamed on trump
Would this be seditious conspiracy? Traitors?
How is being the root cause for the death of the President of the United States and different than being #1 on the Iran kill list?
What will be the charges be for the reporters and the editors who allowed it to go to print?
Does anyone else remember all of the BS about Bath House Barry Soetoro being “the most threatened President in history?”
Because “white supremacy” and stuff?
Well, now we have a President who truly is the most threatened President ever. President Trump’s enemies are legion, and they all want him dead.
Who are his enemies?
The UniParty, the CIA/Five Eyes, the FBI, most of the Deep State bureaucracy, Iran, the EU, and NATO to begin with.
And the media.
They all want President Trump dead so they can complete their mission-destroying our constitutional republic and replacing it with a banana republic style dictatorship.
Prosecute these treasonous, murderous fake news journos to the full extent of the law.
May God continue to bless and protect President Trump, his family and his loyal allies.
At this point I wouldn’t mind if those “journalists” were given the Putin treatment. They already accuse him of worse.
They need to be extra careful on their morning jogs, pulling into a dark parking garage in NYC, when they walk the dog in the evening…. etc.
Covid convinced me we are ALREADY in a war with the radicals. All is fair in love and war.
Thanks Sundance from bringing it to our attention.
I sure hope TRUMP and the Government go after these traitors.
ALSO find the person who leaked this info, and put him in front of firing squad.
So this was the reason they diverted the new AF1 to Europe and replaced it with the older AF1 when Trump was in Turkey (with newer anti-missle options).
A house-cleaning of MSM needs to happen ASAP.
I guess some of the reporters on Trump’s plane knew this info, and Trump told them, if they get me, and you are on the plane they will kill you too.
Maybe fill the plane with NYT journalists and do flyovers of Iran. That might be appropriate.
Next foreign trip, transport the NYT and other select reporters via the Red-White-Blue plane.
I’m very serious.
Tell the NYT to find their own way there…where ever there may be.
well ,I hope they are charged for whatever crimes they committed and and given the maximum sentence they can get. She how they like that.
Where did they get the intel?
Work backwards, which agencies favor leaking to the NY Slimes?
Put those “journalists” in front of a firing squad and let loose. That would be the last time that ever happens.
I wonder what would happen if the reporters and the editor had their home addresses and family members residing in those home published, along with a list of any owned firearms and passwords to their home security systems.
If I were the president in that situation, I might have required all of the reporters to ride back from Turkey in the new plane. I would tell them before they left that I was instructing the pilot to fly along the Iranian border so they could make a first-hand report on the war.
Nothing like fighting fire with fire.
I think Trump did fly the press back from Turkey on that plane to Germany. So, the troops could take a tour of the plane when it got there supposedly.