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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (22481)6/28/2006 10:31:55 AM
From: JohnM   of 541658
 
NYT Editorial
Patriotism and the Press
Published: June 28, 2006

The Times editorial staff continues to write interesting and instructive editorials.

My own views are, subject to learning more:

1. Apparently, the program had been the subject of newspaper articles earlier so these disclosures are not particularly new.
2. It appears to fit with the ongoing stance of the administration that they do not need to adhere to any checks and balances in doing such.
3. Disclosing it would only verify what any one would already suspect. So it doesn't tell them something new.
4. I don't see anything to date that endangers operatives.
5. Thus, the "outrage" seems purely, my description now, political, a way to energize the base. Not only the above suggests that but the rather long wait after the newspaper articles were first published before the major figures within the admin did their act, also suggests it.
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