Shameful act
A serious breach of national security the Constitution.
"Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power... Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story - which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year - because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker."
The New York Times has been scooped (again) -- on a big national story with sweeping significance. But now, it's not on CIA black prisons (that was the Washington Post) or the Pentagon's paid propaganda in Iraq (broken by the L.A. Times).
This time, the scoop is about a top secret meeting in the Oval Office, involving President Bush...and the two top officials of the New York Times. For the last four days, the Times has been writing about the domestic spying program of the Bush Administration, and they did indeed report that the newspaper's story was held for a year, give or take.
But not once in its coverage did the Times mention that publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and executive editor Bill Keller were summoned to the White House on Dec. 6, 13 days ago, in a last-ditch bid to get the newspaper to kill the story, which tonight has some members of Congress talking about impeachment. - Attytood.
This time, the scoop is about a top secret meeting in the Oval Office, involving President Bush...and the two top officials of the New York Times. For the last four days, the Times has been writing about the domestic spying program of the Bush Administration, and they did indeed report that the newspaper's story was held for a year, give or take.
But not once in its coverage did the Times mention that publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and executive editor Bill Keller were summoned to the White House on Dec. 6, 13 days ago, in a last-ditch bid to get the newspaper to kill the story, which tonight has some members of Congress talking about impeachment. - Attytood.
The paper of record. The broken record for the Bush misadministration.
From a standoff over the Patriot Act to pushback from Capitol Hill on the treatment of detainees, secret prisons abroad, and government eavesdropping at home, tensions between the Bush White House and the Republican-controlled Congress have never been more exposed.
Even Republicans who favor renewing the Patriot Act were blindsided by news Friday, later confirmed, that President Bush had authorized secret eavesdropping on US citizens.
Even Republicans who favor renewing the Patriot Act were blindsided by news Friday, later confirmed, that President Bush had authorized secret eavesdropping on US citizens.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-Gofigure, called shenanigans. If the Boy King is 'allowed to decide unilaterally who the potential terrorists are, he in essense becomes the court,' Graham said on CBS's "Face the Nation." He also called for a congressional review.
Vice President Liar von Halliburton pompously weighed in and lied in an interview Sunday with ABC News: "It's the kind of capability if we'd had before 9/11 might have led us to be able to prevent 9/11."
I guess the PDB Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the US was just another goddamned piece of paper.
Fun fact: Quakers, librarians, the Catholic Workers' group and vegans are considered terrists by the Bush misadministration. Freedom.
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