A number of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives criticized the "New York Times" for reporting on the program, and Representative Peter T. King, then the House Homeland Security Committee chairman, called on the Bush administration to seek criminal charges against the "Times" under the Espionage Act of 1917 and other related federal statutes. The "Los Angeles Times" and the "Wall Street Journal" divulged information about the TFTP at the same time. The "New York Times" itself argued in a June 28, 2006 editorial that its reporting about the TFTP is protected by the First Amendment and serves a vital role, providing "information the public needs to make things right again". The "New York Times" editorial further argued that terrorists would have to be "fairly credulous" to believe their finances were not being tracked and that the reporting bore "no resemblance to security breaches, like disclosure of troop locations, that would clearly compromise the immediate safety of specific individuals.