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  • Lichtblau of 'NYT' Explains Attempt to Halt His Bank Records Scoop

    06/23/2006 12:31:15 PM PDT · by oxcart · 52 replies · 1,420+ views
    Editor and Publisher ^ | 06/23/2006 | By Joe Strupp
    NEW YORK Eric Lichtblau, one of two New York Times' reporters who broke today's story of a secret government monitoring of private banking records - which the Bush Administration sought to block - said the White House arguments to halt the story were not as strong as those that had kept a previous report on secret wiretapping out of the paper for a year. "They were similar in terms of the objections raised not to publish," Lichtblau told E&P today. "That the bad guys knew we were listening to them, but they don't know exactly how." But he said the...