The New York Observer has the story on how and why the NYTimes caved for a year, then decided to publish the NSA spying story against the wishes of the president, and some nine days after Bush personally pressed the Times' Sulzberger and Keller not to let it go to print. An interesting note in the piece: the co-author of the spy scoop, whose book stands to benefit from the story (though Keller denies the book had anything to do with the publication date), has had past run-ins with the paper over his desire to do stories countering the WMD enthusiams of former Times scooper-in-chief Judy Miller...
Also in NYO: the ed board slams the NY Transit Union boss as arrogant, a writer sifts the mist of Fareed Zakaria's Iraqi Island utopia, and (no surprise here) Joe Conason calls for Mr. Bush's impeachment...
<%
dim done
done = request.form("done")
if done = "" then
done = "No"
%>
Tell a friend
<%
Else
if request.form("done") = "Yes" then
'sets variables
dim email, sendmail
email = request.form("email")
Set sendmail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
'put the webmaster address here
sendmail.From = "webmaster@aspbasics.com"
'The mail is sent to the address entered in the previous page.
sendmail.To = email
'Enter the subject of your mail here
sendmail.Subject = "Check out this website"
'send a specific page or send a site url
dim url
'url = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
url = "http://www.aspbasics.net"
'This is the content of the message.
sendmail.Body = "Site recommendation from a friend!" & _
vbCrlf & vbCrlf & "A friend has sent you this email and thought you would should check out this site." & _
vbCrlf & url & vbCrlf
'this sets mail priority.... 0=low 1=normal 2=high
sendmail.Importance = 1
sendmail.Send 'Send the email!
response.redirect Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
'Response.write ("Sent to ") & email
End if
End if
%>
"[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, August, 1788
