[rodguy911]

I'm glad Frist is up there doing the hard job but you gotta wonder how we wound up in a position of having to defend ourselves about intercepting terrorists phone calls!!

Also I learned this week, forget where, that GW had begged the NYT not to run the story on how we intercepted terrorist calls,he even brought nyt execs up to the oval office, and they ran it anyway. Shortly thereafter we got fewer and fewer intel. NYT should be tried as the traitors that they are.

[Carolinamom]

I read somewhere, also forgot where, that Hamas is dead broke, has inherited a huge debt, and doesn't have the money to even meet the payroll for January. Their "victimhood" is obviously a bid for MORE money. Let them tax those that voted for them.

Carter has suggested that U.S. money could go indirectly to Hamas via the U.N. I say 'not a nichol' for them.........so let Iran fund them and dilute its own economy...and slow down their missle program as well.

[OldFriend]

NYT held the spying story for a year then released it right before the vote to renew the Patriot Act.

Their strategy worked in the short run, but will fail in the long run.

Americans might react emotionally at first, but upon reflection, they see the need to protect our country as the first priority of the President.

[Seattle Conservative]

"Also I learned this week, forget where, that GW had begged the NYT not to run the story on how we intercepted terrorist calls,he even brought nyt execs up to the oval office, and they ran it anyway. Shortly thereafter we got fewer and fewer intel. NYT should be tried as the traitors that they are."

I've rean the same thing. Rather exceptional IMHO for the President to call 2 execs of a news organization into the oval office and ask them not to run a story due to nat'l sec. It's also interesting that they held it for 1 year and released it right before Risen's book on the subject came out. They should all be tried for treason!