I wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times to express my displeasure at their recent efforts to increase the odds that I get blown up. I suspect they will not be publishing it any time soon so I thought I should do it here.

To the Editor;

How far are you willing to go to increase the odds that innocent civilians will be killed in a terrorist attack?

Is there an effort to track down and stop terrorism that you would not expose?

Do you not understand that intelligence efforts to stop terrorism to be effective must be secret? Does it occur to you that if the terrorists know how we are tracking them down that they will change the ways they operate and make it that much harder to stop them?

You claim that your actions were in the public interest, but in truth the only interests that have been served are yours and terrorists. As a member of the public who expect the government protect me by stopping terrorists, I assumed they would be trying to track terrorist funding. I would have irate to learn that they were not. Now that anger is reserved for you and your organization for making that effort much more difficult and much less effective.

Are you OK with the idea of innocent civilians being killed because we didn't have the intelligence we needed to stop them? Will you be able to sleep at night knowing your efforts to expose our intelligence operations may have helped make those deaths possible?

Terrorists will strike again. And when they do, wherever they do, some of blood of the dead will spill on your hands.

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Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 07:07 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment