Critics on the right who are accusing the NY Times of releasing the domestic spying story (or as it's known, on FNC: "The Program...") when it did, just so it could stick it to Bush before the Patriot Act vote are, I think, giving the paper far too much credit, as is anyone who is lauding the paper for striking a blow against presidential tyranny. What we now know is that the Times knuckled under to the administration by failing to report what it had learned before the 2004 presidential election -- depriving voters of important information that they deserved to know about the man asking for reelection to the office of president, and violating, I should think, every possible journalistic principle regarding the press' proximity to power. We also now know that the paper finally released the story, not for some high-minded social or journalistic reason, but to help the reporter's book. Nice job, Sulzberger and Keller. You're really raising the bar.
By the way, more than a few people are asking whether Bush's actions, and apparent violations of the FISA law (one of those laws he's sworn to uphold as president) constitutes an impeachable offense...
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"[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
