At a rally outside the New York Times's office last night, protesters called on the government to "prosecute" the newspaper for its recent publication of government security secrets.
Led by a radio talk show host and Caucus for America president, Rabbi Aryeh Spero, almost 100 people gathered on 43rd Street to voice their outrage at the Times's decision to publish "national security secrets relating to our government's financial monitoring programs to track down terrorists."
Rabbi Spero said that publishing the secrets was an act of "treason and betrayal that put the public safety of the country in jeopardy.
"It is directly in violation of Article 18 of the Espionage Act," Rabbi Spero said. "I ask the government to prosecute the Times and the people to boycott it."
He added that the patriotic image of the Times had disappeared, saying that it was now only read by the "snobs on the Upper West Side" and "trans-nationalists and cosmopolitans," who called themselves "citizens of the world, not Americans."
"They think that they have had graduated from America and see themselves more as Parisians or something like that," he said.
