NYTs Amazing Teixeira Hypocrisy?

NYT reporter admits paper would’ve protected latest doc leaker if he had given it a scoop, yet paper’s coverage fawns over its vague “investigative” prowess in exposing him. What was NYTs’ role again in publishing The Pentagon Papers that had also been dumped in its lap?

To his credit (or foolishness), it was New York Times military correspondent David Philipps who posted on Twitter (since deleted) a rip-snorting criticism of his paper. He bluntly said its coverage of the epic intelligence leaks now roiling our Deep State & foreign governments is nothing short of a hypocritical double standard. That, of course, references the NYT’s earlier “Pentagon Papers” series. The paper’s notorious coverage circa 1971 was based on RAND Company’s Daniel Ellsberg having passed the secret project’s docs on to its reporters. In that case, the paper fought tooth & nail to protect its “sources” & its right to publish the papers was eventually upheld by the Supreme Court. But, Philipps suggested we compare that to its taking credit for tracking down the 21-yr-old National Guard leaker, Jack Teixeira: “The NYT worked feverishly to find the identity of the guy leaking TS docs on Discord. Ironically, if the same guy had leaked to the NYT, we’d be working feverishly to conceal it.”

The NYTs IS doing a pretty good job again promoting its own genius. In The Morning column, for instance, we’re breathlessly told: “Even before US officials announced Jack Teixeira as a suspect … in the leaking of classified intelligence documents, my colleagues on the Visual Investigations team had learned of Teixeira’s identity. I asked Mark Scheffler, the editor of the team, to share the FASCINATING backstory with you.” Save it. It comes down to another boring rendition of unnamed sources, anonymous tips & “private” aka unconfirmable messages followed up by some obvious gamer detective work resulting in a conclusion “the authorities [surprise] were already on to him … later that morning, a SWAT team arrived at the [suspect’s] house in Massachusetts.”

Davd Soul