Why is Bush so afraid of NYT..
Bush Condemns Bank Record Search Leak
Washington Post
Monday, June 26, 2006; 12:48 PM
President Bush said today that a secret program to search global bank records for terrorism-related transactions was "fully authorized" under U.S. law, and he denounced the public disclosure of the program as "disgraceful."
Weighing in forcefully on the issue for the first time since the program was disclosed last week, Bush said the revelation "does great harm" to the nation and makes it harder to track terrorists.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/26/AR200606...
'Bush v. NYT'...
is ludicrous...
'The truth will set you free'...
The BushCo weigh 'double standards' on the New York Times...and obviously want to 'reverse the act of espionage'..to the whistleblower.
The NYT is within their 'freedom of speech' and journalist legal limits within the law --and have committed no crime.
Bush are afraid that 'real news' are 'conspiracies'...since day 1.
I suppose, when the BA pay '-whore tramp reporters'..and pay [pre-selected individuals] and select certain right-wing media --to improv news --that is the real crime...not the one that 'tells it like it is'!
Bush is just pissed because
Bush is just pissed because the NYT didn't wait until AFTER the November elections to print the story - much the same way they held the domestic wiretapping story until AFTER 2004 elections. Strange that the NYT is considered to be evil when criticizing Bush secretive programs but is the administrations best friend when needing to leak CIA operatives names.
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security
like it's some kind of federal program."
- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
NYT a Bush target...
NEW YORK - The New York Times is defending itself from criticism about a report on secret financial monitoring of terrorists, saying it found arguments by Bush administration officials against publishing it "puzzling" and "half-hearted."
In a note on the paper's Web site Sunday, Executive Editor Bill Keller said the Times spent weeks discussing with Bush administration officials whether to publish the report.
He said part of the government's argument was that the anti-terror program would no longer be effective if it became known, because international bankers would be unwilling to cooperate and terrorists would find other ways to move money.
"We don't know what the banking consortium will do, but we found this argument puzzling," Keller said, pointing out that the banks were under subpoena to provide the information. "The Bush Administration and America itself may be unpopular in Europe these days, but policing the byways of international terror seems to have pretty strong support everywhere."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060626/ap_on_re_us/prosecuting_reporters
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IMO: Bush is incompetent; but he's using the 'conservative agenda'.