Sen. Pat Roberts weighed in Tuesday on the controversy about whether the New York Times went too far by revealing the existence of a program that tracks terrorist finances.The New York Times itself reports: _Senator Pat Roberts, the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, asked the director of national intelligence on Tuesday to assess any damage to American counterterrorism efforts caused by the disclosure of secret programs to monitor telephone calls and financial transactions.__Mr. Roberts, Republican of Kansas, singled out The New York Times for an article last week that reported that the government was tracking money transfers handled by a banking consortium based in Belgium. The targeting of the financial data, which includes some Americans’ transactions, was also reported Thursday by The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal.__In his letter to John D. Negroponte, director of national intelligence, Mr. Roberts wrote that “we have been unable to persuade the media to act responsibly and to protect the means by which we protect this nation.”__He asked for a formal evaluation of damage to intelligence collection resulting from the revelation of the secret financial monitoring as well as The Times’s disclosure in December of the National Security Agency’s monitoring of phone calls and e-mail messages of Americans suspected of having links to Al Qaeda._The LA Times adds: _”Numerous recent unauthorized disclosures of sensitive intelligence programs have directly threatened important efforts in the war against terrorism,” Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) wrote in a letter to National Intelligence Director John D. Negroponte._Other links today:Sam Brownback links(New York Times) Push for new tactics as war on malaria falters: It is no secret that mosquitoes carry the parasite that causes malaria. More mystifying is why 800,000 young African children a year still die of malaria – more than from any other disease – when there are medicines that cure for 55 cents a dose, mosquito nets that shield a child for $1 a year, and indoor insecticide spraying that costs about $10 annually for a household. … Social conservatives and liberals have been building alliances across ideological lines on malaria, a killer of little children. Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, said he had found common ground with the economist Jeffrey Sachs, who has long maintained that practical solutions carried out by Africans can prevent millions of deaths from malaria. “You have the left and right coming together,” the senator said.Pat Roberts links(CattleNetwork.com) Roberts To China: Reopen Markets To U.S. Beef: U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) led a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to urge Chinese President Hu Jintao to honor a commitment to open Chinese markets to U.S. beef by the end of June. The senators said in the letter, “We are concerned with the continued embargo on American beef. Resuming beef trade between our countries is a top priority.” In April, the Chinese agreed to work toward the resumption of beef trade with the United States at the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade. In May, delegations from both China and the United States met and finalized a memorandum of cooperation with a basis on food safety. The Chinese agreed to finalize negotiations on a protocol to reopen their market by June 30th.How to contact As always, you can find information to contact members of the Kansas congressional delegation here.