Douchebag Newspaper Puts American Servicemen At Risk, Helps Nation’s Enemies In Bid To Raise Sales, Attack Bush

In true New York Times fashion, the paper published a story Sunday disclosing that Donald Rumsfeld signed a secret order in 2004, authorizing the military to attack the Al Qaeda network in countries not at war with the United States.

In 2006, for example, a Navy Seal team raided a suspected militants’ compound in the Bajaur region of Pakistan, according to a former top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Officials watched the entire mission — captured by the video camera of a remotely piloted Predator aircraft — in real time in the C.I.A.’s Counterterrorist Center at the agency’s headquarters in Virginia 7,000 miles away.

I’m sure the Pakistanis are happy to hear about operations being conducted in their territory.  The article also gives a heads up to Iran.

Apart from the 2006 raid into Pakistan, the American officials refused to describe in detail what they said had been nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks, except to say they had been carried out in Syria, Pakistan and other countries. They made clear that there had been no raids into Iran using that authority, but they suggested that American forces had carried out reconnaissance missions in Iran using other classified directives.

So if you happen to work for the Iranian security forces, you might want to keep your eyes open.

Max Boot points out that there may be a positive aspect for the US counterterrorism efforts, given the incoming adminstration.

I have a feeling that perhaps the MSM won’t be so eager to blow the whistle on operations ordered by a president they love rather than one they loathe. At the very least, they will give President Obama a longer presumption of goodwill than they gave to President Bush, who enjoyed it for only a few months after 9/11. If we are thus better able to make covert ops truly covert, that may well be an unexpected benefit of Obama’s ascendancy.