My syndicated column today (now on Yahoo! News) offers a reminder that the blabbermouths at the New York Times have been implicated in terror tip-offs about our financial investigations before:

I remind you of the case of the Treason Times, the Holy Land Foundation, and the Global Relief Foundation. As the New York Post reported last September, the Justice Department charged that “a veteran New York Times foreign correspondent warned an alleged terror-funding Islamic charity that the FBI was about to raid its office — potentially endangering the lives of federal agents.” Times reporter Philip Shenon was accused of blowing the cover on a Dec. 14, 2001, raid of the Global Relief Foundation.

“It has been conclusively established that Global Relief Foundation learned of the search from reporter Philip Shenon of The New York Times,” U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald wrote in an Aug. 7, 2002, letter to the Times’ legal department.

Shenon’s phone tip to the Muslim charity (which occurred one day before the FBI searched the foundation’s offices), Fitzgerald said, “seriously compromised the integrity of the investigation and potentially endangered the safety of federal law-enforcement personnel.” The Global Relief Foundation (GRF) wasn’t some beneficent neighborhood charity sending shoes and Muslim Barbie dolls to poor kids overseas. It was designated a terror-financing organization in October 2002 by the Treasury Department, which reported that GRF “has connections to, has provided support for, and has provided assistance to Usama Bin Ladin, the al Qaida Network, and other known terrorist groups.”

The Muslim charity had “received funding from individuals associated with al Qaida. GRF officials have had extensive contacts with a close associate of Usama Bin Ladin, who has been convicted in a U.S. court for his role in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.” Moreover, the Treasury Department said, “GRF members have dealt with officials of the Taliban, while the Taliban was subject to international sanctions.”

Shenon’s then-colleague, Judith Miller, had placed a similar call to another Muslim terrorist-front financier, the Holy Land Foundation, a few weeks before Shenon’s call to the GRF. She was supposedly asking for “comment” on an impending freeze of their assets. According to Fitzgerald in court papers, Miller allegedly also warned them that “government action was imminent.” The FBI raided the Holy Land Foundation’s offices the day after Miller’s article was published in the Times.

The Times’ reporters — surprise, surprise — refuse to cooperate with investigators trying to identify the leakers. The government is appealing a ruling protecting the loose-lipped reporters’ phone records.

Which side are they on? Actions speak louder than words.

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GOP Senators speak out on the dangers of classifed leaks. A House GOP resolution is in the works. Howard Kurtz plays the violin for the NYTimes/LATimes. Hugh Hewitt’s not having it.

I’m hearing buzz about a protest in front of the NYTimes soon. Stay tuned.

And many readers are asking for a list of NYTimes advertisers. I’m not sure how effective an advertising boycott will be, but if you want to do it, a reader sends this list:

METLIFE
Corporate Headquarters
Rob Henrickson, CEO
MetLife, Inc.
200 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10166
212-578-2211

PFIZER
Margaret M. Foran, Senior Vice President,
235 East 42nd Street, New York, New York 10017.
leaddirector@pfizer.com
auditchair@pfizer.com
compchair@pfizer.com
corpgovchair@pfizer.com

SPRINT
Corporate Headquarters 2001 Edmund Halley Drive
Reston, VA 20191
703-433-4000
investor.relations@sprint.com
Mark.j.elliott@sprint.com
Kurt.Fawkes@sprint.com

SAMSUNG
Dong-Jin Oh President & CEO
Consumer Electronics
105 Challenger Road
Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660
Tel: 1800-SAMSUNG
Fax: 973-601-6001
kgaynin@mww.com

EXPEDIA
MICROSOFT
AMD (American Micro Devices)
VONAGE
CHARLES SCHWAB
AIR FRANCE
FRANKLIN TEMPLETON
TIFFANY
CARTIER
CHANEL
GUCCI
TORNEAU
SAKS FIFTH
PORSCHE DESIGNS
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS

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