Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Holy Crap! NYTimes Defends Itself

NYT: "When the govt does not want the public to know what it is doing, it often cites natl security as the reason for secrecy. The nation's safety is obviously a most serious issue, but that very fact has caused this administration and many others to use it as a catchall for any matter it wants to keep secret, even if the underlying reason for the secrecy is to prevent embarrassment to the WH. The WH has yet to show that natl security was harmed by the report on electronic spying, which did not reveal the existence of such surveillance - only how it was being done in a way that seems outside the law... Leak investigations are often designed to distract the public from the real issues by blaming the messenger... Illegal spying and torture need to be investigated, not whistle-blowers and newspapers." Could it really be? Is my faith in the NYT being restored?
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