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   Monday, June 26, 2006 11:11 a.m. EDT   
   New York Times Buries King Prosecution Story   
      
      
   The New York Times buried a report that the chairman of the House Homeland   
   Security Committee was urging the Bush administration to seek criminal   
   charges against the newspaper for reporting on a secret financial-monitoring   
   program used to trace terrorists.   
      
   As NewsMax reported on Sunday, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., blasted the Times'   
   decision last week to report that the Treasury Department was working with   
   the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of   
   money-transfer records.   
      
   King's call for a prosecution of the Times was a lead story on cable news   
   shows, wire services like the Associated Press and major Internet sites like   
   NewsMax.   
      
   Still, the Times on Monday decided to bury the story in an article about the   
   National Security Agency's wiretap program.   
      
      
   Under the headline "Court Review of Wiretaps May Be Near, Senator Says" -   
   which gave no inkling of Rep. King's attack - the Times finally introduced   
   King on page A12 in the ninth paragraph of the story, saying he was   
   "outraged" and had "called for a criminal investigation into the Times."   
      
   "I'm calling on the attorney general to begin a criminal investigation and   
   prosecution of the New York Times, its reporters, the editors that worked on   
   this and the publisher," the Times quoted Rep. King as saying.   
      
   But King had gone further in an earlier comment, declaring: "We're at war,   
   and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods   
   is treasonous."   
      
   As NewsMax reported, King said he thought investigators should also examine   
   reports by the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times about the   
   financial-monitoring program, but said the greater focus should be on the   
   Times because of their previous reporting on a secret domestic wiretapping   
   program.   
      
   In a letter to readers posted Sunday on the Times' Web site, executive   
   editor Bill Keller said that the newspaper and others in the press "have   
   served the public interest" by reporting on secret programs designed to   
   fight terrorism.   
      
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