Posted on 12/17/2005 10:08:23 PM PST by Pikamax
'NY Times' Hits Back after Bush Criticizes Story
By E&P Staff
Published: December 17, 2005 10:00 PM ET
NEW YORK Refusing to back down under criticism from the White House, The New York Times in a Sunday editorial calls for Congress to act on its revelations about a secret spying program against Americans.
"President Bush defended the program yesterday, saying it was saving lives, hotly insisting that he was working within the Constitution and the law, and denouncing The Times for disclosing the program's existence," the editorial declares. "We don't know if he was right on the first count; this White House has cried wolf so many times on the urgency of national security threats that it has lost all credibility. But we have learned the hard way that Mr. Bush's team cannot be trusted to find the boundaries of the law, much less respect them.
"Mr. Bush said he would not retract his secret directive or halt the illegal spying, so Congress should find a way to force him to do it. Perhaps the Congressional leaders who were told about the program could get the ball rolling."
President Bush on Saturday had criticized the story and the leaks to the media that led to it. A Republican senator later attacked the Times for allegedly endangering lives (see other stories on this site).
In Friday's Times, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau reported that in 2002, President Bush signed a secret executive order to allow spying on American citizens without obtaining a warrant.
"Let's be clear about this: illegal government spying on Americans is a violation of individual liberties, whether conditions are troubled or not," the Times editorial states. "Nobody with a real regard for the rule of law and the Constitution would have difficulty seeing that. The law governing the National Security Agency was written after the Vietnam War because the government had made lists of people it considered national security threats and spied on them. All the same empty points about effective intelligence gathering were offered then, just as they are now, and the Congress, the courts and the American people rejected them."
You know what else is unbelievable....the fact that the islamists/terrorists use to teach jihadi recruits that the US media is a propaganda tool of the Bush administration and the 'evil' Zionists...lol! OBL now has a subscription delivered to his cave everyday and takes his 'talking points' straight from their pages!
Yeah....me thinks the NYTIMES doth protest too much....those Senators will be TALKING....about whom they talked to....
Mention boycotting their advertisers - we'll start with the biggies, Fortunoff, Tiffany. IMO, it is way overdue. And why? Just because we can!
Janet Robinson, president and chief executive officer of the Company;
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman and Publisher;
Scott Heekin-Canedy, president and general manager. He is responsible for all of the business operations of the Times newspaper, including ADVERTISING, CIRCULATION, marketing, production, systems, human resources, finance, strategic planning, labor relations and New York Times News Services
Unholy Alliance :
Radical Islam and the American Left (Hardcover)
by David Horowitz
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Now that was an informative post ! Thanks.
These goofballs....I'm SPEECHLESS. Don't they realize that they're NOT HELPING???????
English translation: "We don't know, and don't care if any lives have been saved by this measure. We don't know, and don't care, if this measure is legal or not: we want it stopped, and will use all our influence to that end".
That's funny, when I read about entities that have misled people with phony stories full of manufactured "facts" so many times that they have lost all credibility, I assume we're talking about the NY Times. Or have they forgotten their own journalistic scandals so soon? Frankly, if Bush hadn't personally confirmed the wiretap story, I never would've believed it because it came from the NY Times. So obviously, Bush has more credibility than they do.
The NT Times rag, the nation's mouthpiece for the Democratic Party. National security be d@mned!
I am glad you agree.
No media bias here. The N.Y. Times, being prosecutor, judge and jury, have determined and declared the spying was 'illegal'.
Right about now President Bush must be wondering exactly what to do about the American media. They have become every bit as dangerous to America as the Islamofacists who are trying to destroy us are.
This article from the N.Y. Times announces, loud and clear, that the American media are in the mood for an open, decisive battle against all that is left of goodness. They can no longer contain their malevolence, and have now declared all-out, open war against President Bush, the truth, conservatives and Christian America. Where they once tried to veil their personal political bias and hatred for conservatives they now openly and shamelessly reveal it. Only the truly blind will not be able to see the media bias and their anti-America agenda now.
Osamma bin Laden and al Zarqawi have a good friend and a powerful ally in the NY Times, and they know it.
It's all Clintonesque semantics. If 'The Times' says it's a 'secret' order, well, then, it must be. They just have a different definition of 'secret'.
The libs now appear to be aiming at their feet with high-powered weapons and twitchy trigger fingers. It's only a matter of time now....MTF.
Sure sounds illegal to me. Whether it is or not may be a matter for lawyers. I'm listening..
Shouldn't we be spying on Americans that are assisting Al Queda?
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