Why won't the US press report this stuff?

Question

Der Spiegel (Germany) has interesting information about the terror bust in Germany;

"Three suspected Islamist militants who were planning to attack U.S. installations in Germany had orders to act by Sept. 15...."

According to surveillance details published in Der Spiegel magazine, the men had been given a two-week deadline for their planned strikes in a late August call from northern Pakistan that was monitored by German police.

So al Qaeda's top leaders were anxious to precipitate an attack on Americans by September 15. Why? That's the date on which General Petraeus will deliver his report to Congress. Al Qaeda, as always, was playing to the Democrats in Congress, the press, and the American people. Undoubtedly, similar orders have gone out to al Qaeda's agents in Iraq and around the world.

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Note, too, how German authorities found out about the planned attack. They eavesdropped on a phone call from Pakistan to Germany. This is the exact equivalent of the NSA program that is ritually, but inaccurately, described in the press as "domestic spying." Most Democrats denounce the program as unconstitutional.

Further, it was the NSA program that brought the German terrorists to light:

The arrests were the culmination of an investigation that began a year ago, when U.S. officials alerted German authorities to e-mails intercepted from Pakistan.

If the Democrats get their way, the NSA will not be able to use this tactic unless it has enough knowledge, enough days in advance, to get an order from a FISA judge. You can be sure, however, that the liberals will never mention this incident when they denounce the program as an invasion of constitutional rights.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/

Answer 1

To busy reporting on Princess Diana, McCann, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Owen Wilson, hot air ballon accidents and any other sensational "news". Plus most intelligent American's get their news from the net and foreign news sources.

Answer 2

I don't understand your point.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/world/europe/07germany.html?ex=1204689600&en=ecd5645035b66b0c&ei=5087&excamp=OVGNgermanterrorists

The above is a headline from the New York Times. I don't know where you get your news from, but this is all over the American press. Or...have you been reading USA Today instead?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-09-05-germany-terror_N.htm

There's a story from them.

Please actually TRY to find the article, instead of claiming the press doesn't cover this stuff.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Ron Paul I gather you never been outside the US. Yes German does have a free press, plus the rest of Europe.

Answer 5

You are correct. Good news in the war against terrorism does not fit the plans of the left wing liberal loonies in government and in the main stream media. Those two groups are trying to have the US fail in the wars.

Answer 6

Don't count the press out yet. On Friday I heard a reporterette pointing out that great timing of the tape to help Bush with his war speech. She seemed to imply that Bush had arranged for the Bin Laden tape. No, the press knows who they support and they haven't spoken yet.

Answer 7

They did report it. This was all over the TV, Internet and in the papers last week. How did you miss it? Another erroneous claim about the US press.

Answer 8

The Germans are socialist and have a completely different system, but unlike us they have a free and reliable media... You wanna be German now? Ich glaube nicht dass du irgendwelcher idea hast wo von du redest..

Answer 9

The mainstream media is controlled by the CFR

Answer 10

What, admit that things are working to our advantage?
That we're winning?
Besides that would piss off Hillary.