Last year we noted that the AP had won “The Pulizer Prize for felony murder” for its spot photographic coverage in Iraq. We followed up in a series of posts featuring the analysis of former New York Times photographer D. Gorton (here and here). Mr. Gorton recapitulated his analysis in a devastating column for the Standard. Below is the photo in issue. (I wonder if Bilal Hussein was the AP stringer who has enjoyed such a fruitful collaboration with terrorists.)

Following in the footsteps of the AP last year, New York Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau won the Pulitzer Prize today for their treasonous contribution to the undermining of the highly classified National Security Agency surveillance program of al Qaeda-related terrorists. As I argued in a column for the Standard, the Risen/Lichtblau reportage clearly violated relevant provisions of the Espionage Act — a particularly serious crime insofar as it lends assistance to the enemy in a time of war.

Juxtapose the Times’s award-winning reportage with the Times’s highminded editorial condemnation of President Bush for allegedly failing to follow proper procedure in declassifying the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate key judgments. Today the Times instructs us: “Even a president cannot wave a wand and announce that an intelligence report is declassified.”

Waving a wand is apparently a prerogative reserved to Times executive editor Bill Keller, who made the decision to “declassify” the NSA surveillance program in the pages of the Times. According to Keller, the publication of the NSA story did “not expose any technical intelligence-gathering methods or capabilities that are not already on the public record.” Thus Keller waved his wand, and the Times blew the NSA program. Smarter folks than I will have to reconcile the trains of thought at work among the editors of the New York Times.

What about the Pulitzer Prize committee? When Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for the Times in connection with his mendacious coverage of Stalin’s Soviet Union, he performed valuable public relations work for a mass murderer. He nevertheless did no direct harm to the United States. Today’s Pulitzer Prize award to the Times brings a new shame to the Pulitzer Prize committee that builds on its disgrace last year via the award to the AP.

from Powerline.

I find it amazing that the media has been attacking Bush for declassifying information. But when the NYT reveals information that could be harmful to the war on terror there is no outcry at all. But the real danger here is far more then the liberal media’s double standards.

As I have said before, the media empowers terrorists by weakening our security and whitewashing terror.

We cannot win one war without winning the other.