Posted on 01/02/2006 12:27:47 PM PST by Kaslin
New York Times executives are "stonewalling" on questions about the paper's decision to publish top secret information about the Bush administration's use of the National Security Agency to conduct surveillance operations against terrorists, the paper's public editor charged on Sunday.
"The New York Times's explanation of its decision to report, after what it said was a one-year delay, that the National Security Agency is eavesdropping domestically without court-approved warrants was woefully inadequate," public editor Byron Calame wrote in a New Years Day column.
In its initial report on Dec. 16, Times said that editors held the story at the request of the White House, then edited out some - but not all - of the information that Bush administration officials warned would compromise national security.
But a frustrated-sounding Calame said that explanation wasn't good enough, adding: "I have had unusual difficulty getting a better explanation for readers, despite the paper's repeated pledges of greater transparency."
"For the first time since I became public editor, the executive editor and the publisher have declined to respond to my requests for information about news-related decision-making," he lamented.
Three days after the Times began publishing the national security secrets, Calame says he emailed a list of 28 questions to executive editor Bill Keller, who "promptly declined to respond to them."
He then sent the same questions to Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who also declined to respond. "They held out no hope for a fuller explanation in the future," Calame said.
He accused the two top Times officials of "stonewalling," adding, "The paper's silence leaves me with uncomfortable doubts."
I read that thread last night and was amazed at the number of people who did not find anything wrong in using a 'work computer' for things like that!!
How does one not let them control the debate? They, the RATs, control all the MSM, which is where most of America gets their news. Most people do not know how to judge whether they are seeing lies of true stories on the 6pm news, or the repetitive radio news headlines every 30 minutes. I list to conservative talk radio almost every weekday, but you should listen to the news on the half hour - it sounds like it is produced by Errhead America (on the conservative talk stations). What is a guy in the street to believe if he gets no other inputs like we do here on FR? They control the debate and how can that be fixed? Bush went for 2 years without even attempting to fight back, now he is coming from behind, although I certainly approve of his recent press conferences. Keep slapping those reporters around, 'cause they think they are on top of the world right now, controlling the national debate.
LOL, that looks really cute!
The libs on Errhead America are already stating that Bush is using NSA to spy on Americans just like Nixon did. Next step start impeachment just like Watergate days. They honestly have convinced themselves that Impeachment is just around the corner and are already starting to talk about rounding up RINOs that support whistle blowers. Everyone should have an assignment of listening to your enemy at least one hour a day. Bush needs to be rebutting this almost daily.
Some posters said she was probably using the email "after hours"
The email & phone numbers would have come into her on DNC business during INTEL regular working hours
Her INTEL email & phone links did not specify "call me only after 5pm or during my 12-1 lunch hour"
This is a violation of FEC regs and federal law and a DNC trick to get around CFR and FEC and legal campaign donation limits
The DNC essentially is illegally embedding their DNC staffers at INTEL and other companies using INTEL payroll, staff, office, computers, photocopiers, email accounts, phones, etc.
I guesstimate placing her with INTEL's knowledge and willing cooperation amounted to well over $250,000+ in illegal contributions from INTEL to the DNC
Note she does not just remain active every 2 & 4 year for the DNC
She is a fulltime democrat employee working at INTEL with their full approval
INTEL is on the blacklist now folks
We still don't know who shot JFK. Looks like we, the people, do NOT have a right to know after all....when it might implicate a socialist/leftist Dem.
"But.......but........what about the "people's right to know" ?"
Guess we'll never know if they 'chastise' her!!
What a straight man I am!
What a setup!
LOLOL, did I set you up?? Not unless I was a mindreader and knew you would use Kerry for the 'kick-off'!! I'm still laughing. See you tomorrow.
Nixon did nothing wrong, his resignation did not equal an admission of guilt, he just had to much class to drag the country through a constitutional quagmire.
The President is empowered by the constitution to wage war and to fight the enemies of the US be they foreign or domestic.
The constitution is not a suicide pact.
All the White House tapes and documents point to the fact that Nixon was convinced that the democratic party had been infiltrated by communists intent on overturning the US government (and he was right, the democratic party was and still is, infiltrated by communists).
We were in the middle of a war (both hot and cold), communist agitators had highjacked the civil rights movement and were inciting riots in the streets, the nation was on the verge of civil war, and Nixon was doing everything in his power to hold the nation together and to get to the bottom of who was responsible for the unrest in the streets.
The only mistake Nixon made was stepping down and giving the liberal media the cover it needed to paint his resignation as an admission of guilt, instead of the patriotic act that it was.
Nixon may very well have been impeached (just as Clinton was) but there was no way the senate would have voted to remove him from office. BUT, the reason he might have been impeached was because of the attempted cover-up of his actions not the actions themselves. If Nixon had just come clean like Bush just did and said, YES I athorized the breakin in the interest of national security in order to protect this country from the communists which have infiltrated the democratic party... the country would have rallied to his side, just as they have to Bush's.
Sounds like a "modified limited hangout" to me.
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