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To: Brumar89 who wrote (16852)	12/31/2005 8:35:09 AM
From: Sully-	of 35834

"still nice that sensible opinion was expressed in the editorial section for a change" Yes & no. IMO, it was far too little far too late. The NYT had this story for more than a year. Their large staff of lawyers knew full well that breaking the story the way they did would expose critical national security secrets while fighting an ongoing war. And they knew full well that the angle the NYT was going to play was to attempt to harm Bush while intentionally remaining silent about all evidence showing Bush was acting within the powers granted to the Executive Branch. The White House claims they had multiple discussions with the NYT repeatedly asking them to not report this story. Do you think the White House didn't point out all the legitimate reasons why this was within the powers of the President? The NYT brags about their multiple layers of editors & fact checkers. They had more than a year to gather all the relevant evidence from every possible source, including the White House, regarding the legality of those warrantless wiretaps. Instead, for nearly two weeks the NYT breathlessly reported numerous one sided stories that Bush illegally conducted warrantless wiretaps on Americans. Not once during that time did they report any of the multiple sources that clearly indicate that Bush was fully within his established powers to authorize those wiretaps. During that time frame, the alternate media widely reported all manner of legitimate reasons to show Bush was operating properly. Like I said earlier, they NYT will use this one late, deeply buried article to claim they were objective & balanced in their reporting.

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