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To: Sully- who wrote (17403)2/27/2006 10:46:57 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Scum is as scum does.

NYT Moves to Cover Its Flank

Posted by B. Preston
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There’s a better than average chance that someone at the NYT was on one end or the other of a crime: the exposure of the highly classified NSA anti-terrorist data-gathering program. There is every chance in the world that the Times knows who leaked that program, since it was leaked to the Times’ own James Risen.

That being the case, it’s more than curious to note that the Times is taking the government to court over the program on what looks like a fishing expedition:

<<< The New York Times sued the US Defense Department demanding that it hand over documents about the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program. The Times wants a list of documents including all internal memos and e-mails about the program of monitoring phone calls without court approval. It also seeks the names of the people or groups identified by it. >>>

Those people or groups identified by the program would be suspected terrorists. But one supposes that the Times expects to find, somewhere on that list, someone who isn’t a suspected terrorist—someone who is in fact not connected to terrorists at all. In that likely event—likely because no program of the apparent scope of the NSA program is foolproof—what do you suppose the Times will do?

Here’s a guess. If the Times prevails in court and gets that list, they will contact a few people on it and find one that seems very very unlikely to be a terrorist, and get that person’s reaction to being named by the NSA’s super secret spying program. That would be worth, what, at least a ten-day front-page crusade against eeeevil Bush, dontcha think? If the Times hits the jackpot and finds a librarian on that list? Cross ref the NSA program with the Patriot Act and you have yourself a presidential burning at the stake.

Meanwhile, whoever leaked the program to the Times—most likely one of only a handful on the staff of the one or two Democrat senators who knew about it—gets away with their actual crime.

It’s a long shot, but the Times has a motive to protect the leaker by diversionary tactics like this: Protecting the leaker protects the leakee, which is ultimately the New York Times.

(h/t Stop the ACLU)

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