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December 16, 2005
The Real Scoop On That NY Times 'NSA spying on Americans' Story
Topics: Political News and commentaries
If you believe that it is purely a coincidence that the New York Times picked the day after the Iraqi elections - a big victory for the Bush administration, and also with the Patriot Act being debated in the Senate - to publish a long-delayed article entitled "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts," I've got some swamp land to sell you in Florida!
On a side note, would it interest you to know that the NYT failed to reveal the "urgent" story was tied to a book release and sale by James Risen - the author of the NYT piece?Marc Schulman writes at American Future today, that he "doesn't have a problem whatsoever with the NSA program described in the Times' article, to which I add - and neither should the rest of us, unless we're terrorists!
After all, as Marc suggests - it's not at all the same as having the DoD create a database of anti-war protestors. Following a chain of communications outward from captured Al Qaeda computers is, in his view, and mine, an appropriate and very necessary activity.
And as he so aptly points out, It's called connecting the dots. Eliminating this surveillance would be a form of unilateral disarmament that would endanger American lives."
So, from the usual unidentified "government officials" (translated - partisan anti-administration politically motivated bureucrat devulging classified information in spite of his/her sworn oath not to devulge our nation's secrets), here's the background and why you should be angry at the NYT for blowing the project...
Posted by Richard at December 16, 2005 10:12 PM
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