Time Mag Editor on Publishing WikiLeaks: 'Our Job is Not to Protect the U.S.'
Time magazine's managing editor said Sunday with respect to the decision to publish intelligence information recently exposed by WikiLeaks, "Our job is not to protect the U.S."
Chatting with Howard Kurtz on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Richard Stengel claimed that irrespective of the harm these released documents did to America's national security, "Our job is to publish and be damned" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
HOWARD KURTZ: Rick Stengel, we'll get to your interview with Assange in just a moment, but I want to ask you about some of the criticism. Here's Max Boot, foreign policy expert, writing in "Commentary" magazine, accusing the news organizations involved in this of collaborating with an accused rapist, says, "The conduct of all concerned is reprehensible and beneath contempt." "This is journalism," he says, "as pure vandalism."
What's your thoughts on that?
RICHARD STENGEL, MANAGING EDITOR, "TIME": You know, our job is to publish and be damned, Howard, and that's what we have done. Those accusations against Assange in some cases are unfair. I mean, the criminal here, if there is a criminal, is Bradley Manning, who is the PFC in the Army who leaked those documents to Assange in the first place.
Our job is to shed light on this. Our job is to give greater transparency and put it in context, as Mark was saying.
KURTZ: But Rick, you say right here in your editor's note in "TIME" magazine that these documents released by WikiLeaks "harm national security," and that Assange meant to do so.
STENGEL: Right. I know. But there's no way around that.
I mean, I believe that's Assange's intention. I believe on balance that they have been detrimental to the U.S. But our job is not to protect the U.S. in that sense. I mean, the First Amendment protects us in terms of releasing this information which does enlighten people about the way the U.S. conducts foreign policy.
So, the only guilty party here is Manning, and news organizations shouldn't care that information they reveal could harm America's national security as well as threaten American lives?
Gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling about the way these folks think about their jobs, doesn't it?
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So no matter the war, "TIME"
Submitted by Lakewood Ed on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 3:02pm.
So no matter the war, "TIME" would reveal intelligence to the enemy?
Be careful what you wish for, Richard Stengel
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 3:13pm.
You know, our job is to publish and be damned, Howard, and that's what we have done.
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Kind of reminds me of the
Submitted by d1carter on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 3:19pm.
Kind of reminds me of the Muhammed cartoons...these "journalists" are so brave....
". . . Our job isn't to protect the U.S. . ."
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 3:22pm.
And they wonder why their sales are down?
John Walker Lindh
Submitted by libBuster on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 5:24pm.
This attitude is part of the moral decay that gave us Taliban John Walker Lindh, who sits in a Federal Prison now. You don't get to pick what country you are loyal to.
So they admit they're traitors
Submitted by ArrowSmith on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 3:28pm.
Arrest all the MSM as "enemy combatants" as the media-wing for Al Queda.
includin heilemann, how many
Submitted by Edhenry on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 3:33pm.
includin heilemann, how many times is the leftist media going to show us how ignorant, biased and dangerous they are.
they keep this up and we may be able to save this country, quickly, in 2 years
The left is so finished in 2012
Submitted by optimist on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 3:33pm.
I can't wait for the bloodbath. Rush's four corners of deceit are going to get such an asskicking.
Well then Stengel…
Submitted by JPR1 on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 3:36pm.
Consider yourself damned. CPP*!
I tried to post the following last week but my poor old laptop choked on the enormous mass of code being acquired on a simple page change. I think it applies here.
I’m pretty sure …
…there was a time when Pinch Sulzberger (and perhaps a few of his cohorts or family members) would have simply been hauled into the streets; roughed up in a most undignified manner and then, unceremoniously, hung from the nearest large tree.
Now I am not, for an instant advocating such action but I will admit to enjoying a moment’s fantasy here.
These are CPM** despicable people.
Whatever it is they think America should be, I want no part of it.
*Common Profane Pronoun
**Common Profane Modifier
Hey--he is just being honest
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 3:39pm.
Hey--he is just being honest about what it is he does for a living.
Why is it that no one reads Time anymore? I forgot...
Shoot the wad, Pal..Been done before..
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 3:44pm.
WikiLeaks Ready to Release Giant 'Insurance' File if Shut DownOne man and the internet.... BIGGER THAN 0BAMA. In 1971, as today, the Justice Department debated whether to file criminal charges over the leak. "The culprit who turned this crap over to Anderson," President Richard Nixon shouted, "that son of a bitch should be shot! He has to be shot!" But the chief executive backed down after Anderson blackmailed him by threatening to reveal even more incriminating secrets if any prosecution took place. At least Nixon didn't try and tax/fine all Americans, For recycling classified information already in the hands of all of our enemies worldwide.!!
You Didn't Build That.
A nation that no-longer deals finally and decisively....
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 3:54pm.
...with its own traitors does not have long to survive.
Too bad Lincoln isn't POTUS and CiC. If he were, that Assange fairy would have been dead before the first release of classified information, and the powers-that-be at the NYT and Slime Magazine would be riding a bench in a federal slammer - if they were lucky.
This country is so screwed it isn't even funny.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
If it causes death, then be
Submitted by Andrew H. on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 4:00pm.
If it causes death, then be damned you are indeed, slime-ball.
Never buy the rag.
The so-called mainstream media is the propaganda arm of the criminal DNC.
Times reporters are in the combat zone?
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 4:03pm.
i as a former US Army Vet-1967 25th Div-and i had a Time reporter in the bush-he would be wise to stay back at base camp.
In a bunker away from us.
Not to be protective of America is Treasonous.
who ever owns Time- i cut them off-all the related publications-we must all cut them off.
The DOJ will not proesecute-so we must!!!!!!!!
When they are on
Submitted by Tjexcite on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 4:07pm.
When they are on the same bandwagon that think the best way to save the world is to eliminate all boarders and the US is the ultimate evil in all the world.
Why would they do anything to help the enemy of freedom and fairness as they see it as it is the US. Knocking the US down is great way to start. It was Newsweek that call everyone socialist but Time would do it as well.
We are not dealing with just left way thinking people we are dealing with Radical Revolutionaries who want not just change in the small sense they what a full total fundamental transformation to everything that people do and how they live everywhere. And if some die in the process, the ends justify the means. You have to break some eggs to make an utopia.
So if, in 1944, some unhappy
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 4:07pm.
So if, in 1944, some unhappy sissy in the military had realesed the 'Manhattan Papers', revealing the secret 'war-ending' bomb project, Time would have seen fit to publish them. I don't think so.
Good thing scumbags like this guy weren't around during WWII,
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 4:06pm.
otherwise this post might have looked like this:
驚いた彼は道を走っていった
SoL
Submitted by Denny Crane on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 2:36am.
これは面白い
We Are The 53%
Very interesting
Submitted by Rukus on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 8:16pm.
Indeed! ; )
Thanks Rukus
Submitted by Denny Crane on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 8:47pm.
I just realized that the translation changes going back.
What was originaly "that was funny!" came back as "it is interesting"
When I say "Omoshiroi" it never means "interesting" but language is a funny thing.
We Are The 53%
Denny
Submitted by 26CX on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 8:26pm.
I have used this phrase many times with excellent results:
私の鶏はフランス語を話さない
26
Submitted by Denny Crane on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 8:45pm.
That reminds me of a story my brother use to tell me.
When he was in the Coast Guard, they would inspect foreign ships, but they weren't allowed to accept anything, including a glass of water. So when the captain would offer them coffee, etc... they would respond "No, Thanks. I just had a bar of soap" :-)
We Are The 53%
This moron needs to remember...
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 4:21pm.
This arrogant, moronic ingrate needs to remember that if he were living in another country, he wouldn't have the right to "freedom of speech" and "freedom of the press". To Time, the New York Times and other make believe media outlets, the First Amendment trumps everything else, including national security. Is it any wonder millions of Americans despise the MBM?
And your point is? If you
Submitted by mandrake on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 4:45pm.
And your point is?
If you forgo the 1st amendment were does that leave you? Just like all the other countries I guess.
Try this
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 4:55pm.
Do this little experiment....go see a movie packed with a lot of people, probably a Harry Potter movie.
Take a seat somewhere, wait about 30-45 minutes and then with a loud voice, yell out "FIRE!" Say it twice or even three times.
See how that works for you.
-Jon
False analogy
Submitted by mandrake on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 5:06pm.
I believe the 1st amendement applies to the press. Are you suggesting I get multple copies of the word "fire" printed and then hand them out to everyone in a theater? (that's a joke in case you don't have a sense of humour)
not just the press
Submitted by Ciampino on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 5:37pm.
Why not go read it rather than saying "I believe"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Consti...Yes, well, Canadians are like that
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 6:13pm.
They don't know, but they certainly feel free to criticize what they don't know, don't they, eh?
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Ha Blonde
Submitted by mandrake on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 7:29pm.
We don't feel the need to criticize..more the need to be contrary..must be the weather. How is it in Florida right now?
It helps if you have facts when you're being contrary, Mandrake
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 8:26pm.
And it's currently 73 degrees.
Gorgeous day.
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This idiot's lucky to be in America!
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 5:46pm.
What I meant was that this idiot from Time is very lucky to be in America, where he has these freedoms the MBM protects so jealously...
The First Amendment? Really, Mandrake?
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 10:12pm.
It doesn't cover acts of treason, which is what this is. Providing our enemies with sensitive information that can compromise national security and endanger Americans is treason. Are you suggesting the First Amendment precludes making treason illegal?
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Often there is a fine line
Submitted by DWoSD on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 4:42pm.
Often there is a fine line between true intelligence and those who pervert intelligence into some sort of self promoting holy war of contrarianism to the establishment. These people live in their own world of platitudes without regard to real world considerations much like children. Unintended consequences be damn and unexamined for the sake of their self importance and self centered actions.
It is time for Time
to rot on the vine.......
Message to Time Mag
Submitted by ThisnThat on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 5:15pm.
Go find obama's birth certificate and publish it. And then be damned.
Go find the real truth about hillary's cattle futures trading and publish it. And then be damned.
Reveal the truth about the UN's scheme to re-distribute wealth. Talk to us about obama's cartel of socialist and communist czars. Speak the truth to us regarding Mexico's attempts to take over the southwest states, and obama's clear and real support of that. Voter fraud in Minnesotal in 2008. The real DOJ policy regarding prosecution of black people. The real reason obama has shut down oil drilling everywhere across the United States. Why California doesn't get water to irrigate its crops. Why NASA's mission has changed to "make muslims feel good".And a host of other real problems accross the United States and world.
Comeon, Time Mag. Show us how bold you are, and how willing you are to be damned -- by the left!
__________
“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
He's a traitor.
Submitted by The Grooter on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 6:22pm.
Let's ship Stengel over to North Korea and see how he likes hanging out with America's enemies, instead of just giving them aid and comfort. Good thing he wasn't around during WWII - he would have been publishing D-Day plans, schematics for the bomb, and Midway Island tactics.
Time Magazine
Submitted by djm159 on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 6:34pm.
It seems that Time, aka Al-Jazeera west, has the same job description as Obama - not to protect America. No wonder they get along so well. BO wouldn't wear an American flag lapel pin because he didn't want it to appear he was taking sides. Isn't that the job of the POTUS to take sides with America? If people stop buying it they will get the message beacuse it is all about the money.
MAybe that's why
Submitted by 10ksnooker on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 6:59pm.
Time MAgazine sold for a $1 ... It's worth less.
That was Newsweek 10k...
Submitted by JPR1 on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 11:25pm.
They sold for a dollar and a mountian of debt.
TIME, on the open market, gotta be worth at least a-buck-two-eighty.
Both a complete waste of nice trees and valuable ink. The carbon footprint is enormous; I say shut 'em down yesterday.
And out job ...
Submitted by drydino on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 7:08pm.
And our job is NOT to protect, or buy, TIME.
Traitorous acts by a "journalist"?
Submitted by Army Brat on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 7:14pm.
I'm stunned! Really!
"Publish and Be Damned"
Submitted by mzk1 on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 7:39pm.
And they most assuredly will be.
Correct, your job is not to protect the U.S..
Submitted by Red Jeep on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 8:32pm.
That's the military's job. But Freedom of Speech is not freedom to betray your country either.
It's not your job...
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 8:58pm.
...but it is your obligation. Enough said.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
perfectly put Cobra
Submitted by Denny Crane on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 2:40am.
We Are The 53%
A confession.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 10:16pm.
I think this is the first time someone in the MSM has actually admitted they don't care if they are hurting the U.S. by publishing this information. Not that any of us are surprised.
Can we shut down Time Magazine and prosecute these morons for negligence and treason? I'm pretty sure the First Amendment does not protect acts of treason.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
No?.......
Submitted by Patriot II on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 10:41am.
So your main objective is to create problems, unrest, strife around the world huh chum......you freaking maggot!!!!
This Is Why............
Submitted by DaMama on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 12:05pm.
This why Time Magazine's subscriptions are in the dumper. No one wants to subscribe to a magazine that is run by such and ignorant and foolish man.
The heyday of Time and Newsweek has passed. They are more like pamphets now, rather than magazines. No one wants to read their liberally biased claptrap anyway.
Time and Newsweek are best used for lining bird cages these days.
Well, Mr. Stengal, you said,
Submitted by texasborngranny on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 1:25pm.
"Our job is not to protect the U.S." Maybe not, but it's not you job to destroy it either. So why do you insist on doing that?