This reporter got what was comming to her, and she can whine and cry all she wants, but there is no ACLU to save her over there, the Pakastani government does not engage in liberal politically correct games.

Trying to muster some sympathy here..
Uhhhgh...nope can't do it. Couldn't have happened to a nicer 'news' source. Lucky you still have your stupid head.

I'm glad to see these Paki thugs are taking this "War on Terror" seriously and are busy adopting American values. Congratulations for being brave enough to punch a girl in the face.
Who at ABC wants to be the first to get a black eye? Anyone?

Without simple behavioral instructions, the New York Times sent her to the front line ill prepared. They are responsible for a misguided training that infused her with an above the law and country, attitude. She holds no allegiance except to the New York Times, what a schmuck.
Can you imagine brushing aside a State Trooper when he asks you for I.D.? Depending on his self control is where your fate would lie; you’d have to be out of your mind on drugs, arrogance, or stupidity, to ignore him. If cops knock on your door in Pakistan let them in and be nice. Otherwise they’re going to slap you around. This woman disrespected and challenged them, asking for their wrath, a masochist’s behavior. The secret police are among the intelligent ones, they have developing egos too.
The world is a real place, reap and sow, a lot different then the dreaming and scheming within the New York Times. She doesn’t belong on the front line trying to justify her hatred of Bush by endowing the enemy.
I spend many years travel in and out of Pakistan, and other third world countries, yes a few times I had late night knockings, along with months of torture and years of solitude in Syria, yet nobody ever slapped me in the face, or even punched me; the torture was controlled, handle-able. I didn’t give them reason to personally transfer hatred, so they could only do their job as enemy of U.S.A. The left is so filled with hatred and arrogance; an illness they must face.

The New York Times is responsible for sending her to the frontline without any protective armament, if you get my drift.

The NYT reporters are too naive to realize they aren't in America. In this country they can publicize secret plans designed to thwart terrorists and get a Nobel Prize for their "bravery". In Pakistan when they try to cavort with the enemy they get a punch in the mouth. Oh, the humanity!

This is a grim milestone. A quagmire for the NY Times.

o'well no big deal NYT is expendable

Some astonishingly ignorant responses here.

A western reporter in Pakistan risking her neck to discover what's going on over there - a matter of no small importance to your security here in America - is casually vilified as helping our enemies?

Is this knee-jerk, bellicose, us versus them gospel really where conservatism is now?

Pathetic.

NYT gets what they deserve

America gave the NYT free speech protections under the First Amendment, and the NYT has never forgiven them ever since.

So she is meeting with the Taliban to get their propaganda out for the NY Times and the government tried to stop her?

Sounds like she resisted to me. If she had nothing to hide then she should have cooperated.

Too many reporters now believe that they have been annointed to comment on our government and people while operating above the law, rather than just report the news. Goodness, I've just described the mindset of the NYT, The WP and the LA Times! What was I thinking?

P.L.P

Is there any chance we could just have the Special Branch agents sent directly to the NYT offices?

maybe she was dating one or more of the officials? and it was a domestic dispute

I read a lot of negative comments here about Gall and her talking to Taliban representative(s). More power to her for doing so. It serves not the interest of our nation to keep our heads buried in the sand, as made clear by some of these posts, because our only source of information is administrative friendly. A reasonable person would think that we would have gotten that idea by now. It pays to know your enemies, contrary to what many seem to believe. Gall’s reporting from the Pakistan - Afghanistan border has been an invaluable source of intelligence to our nation for years - and I guarantee that. And I thank her for her work.

Oh my goodness! We liberals just aren't safe anywhere! They need gun control, that's what they need.

"Is this knee-jerk, bellicose, us versus them gospel really where conservatism is now?"

APPLAUSE!!! Isn't it scary? I'm a conservative and no fan of the NTY by any means, however, suggesting that a NYT journalist was "getting what she deserved" when she was assaulted by government thugs is sickening.

Her previous reporting indicates she writes to only damage the U.S. It would be a useful journalistic enterprise, however, to determine who she was attempting to contact. I also wonder why no news article mentions that Gall is fluent in the languages of the area, worked in Moscow for a while.... So, how is the NYTimes stock doing lately?

I agree Coolfire, if it wasn't for this woman and others like her we would have no idea that the Taliban, Al Queda and the other dozen plus organizations want to kill westerners. Sure there are those suicide bombings and 9/11 but it took the savvy of a reporter to bring it into the light.
So when are all the reporters just going to cut to the chase, climb up on a cross and die for our sins?

She needs some cultural sensitivity training.