[lit-ideas] Bush joins in condemning N.Y. Times
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:24:06 -0400
>>Free press, eh?
Some reactions.
First a showcase of journalistic hypocrisy: Read the 9-24-01
New York Times Editorial calling for more surveillance of
terrorist money-laundering, claiming that Bush was not doing
enough. "That Was Then"
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014523.php
NR Editors call for revoking NYT press credentials:
The New York Times is a recidivist offender in what has
become a relentless effort to undermine the
intelligence-gathering without which a war against embedded
terrorists cannot be won. And it is an unrepentant offender.
In a letter published over the weekend, Keller once again
defended the newspaper’s editorial decision to run its TFTP
story. Without any trace of perceiving the danger inherent
in public officials’ compromising of national-security
information (a matter that the Times frothed over when it
came to the comparative trifle of Valerie Plame’s status as
a CIA employee), Keller indicated that the Times would
continue revealing such matters whenever it unilaterally
decided that doing so was in the public interest.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDVhYWQzMmQ3YWRlNzFkYjRmZmY4ZTQzZmUwZjJhZjI=
Tony Snow claims the NYT
"and other news organizations ought to think long and hard
about whether a public’s right to know in some cases might
override somebody’s right to live, and whether in fact the
publications of these could place in jeopardy the safety of
fellow Americans...."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002728197
Harry Reid thinks the program was valid but that he should
have been briefed more regularly:
Unlike the NSA program, the banking surveillance has not
triggered broad outrage among congressional Democrats. Jim
Manley, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid
(D-Nev.), said that "it doesn't seem to be based on the same
shaky legal analysis" as the NSA program. But he added that
Reid, who was briefed on it for the first time a few weeks
ago, is concerned that "the administration has continued to
ignore its duty to keep Congress informed."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/26/AR2006062600563.html
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