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[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

... And you know the Bush administration is sweating when they try to turn something that has been in Public Domain knowledge since 2002 into a "Traitorous New York Times!" issue. ArtJim, the following is from Salon.com. What I can't figure out is how the rest of the media continues to let the Bush Administration get away with turning this BS into major stories, distracting from what SHOULD be major stories. Anyway... here you go:

<<Is it a leak if it wasn't a secret in the first place? >>

Even so, the program was bearing fruit. If you had the time to follow every public statement and document you could maybe have drawn inferences that such activity was going on. I certainly assumed that we were doing creative things like this. It was still basically a secret program, you can't say it was common public knowledge like it is now. The Times put it on the front page and described what was going on and how it worked and that it was aimed at tracking terrorists. The funny part is that they'll still continue doing it and will probably still catch people.

My problem with the Times is that were begged by the government to keep quiet and despite there being no real problems with the program, they thought the best thing to do would be to expose it. It would almost appear that they want us to lose. These are some of the only ways we can get information about what these people are doing.

Why did they publish this story? What was the public good for the US? And a blatantly political question, if the Times had come to know about the same program during a Clinton administration (Bill or Hillary) and President Clinton pleaded with them to not run the story, does anyone believe the story would have run. Not a chance in hell! So what that means is that they didn't do it for any noble right of the public to know all that goes on. It's our national security at stake, lives are at stake, yet they play politics.