Why Times Ran Wiretap Story, Defying Bush

<snip>By Gabriel Sherman

On the afternoon of Dec. 15, New York Times executives put the paper’s preferred First Amendment lawyer, Floyd Abrams, on standby. In the pipeline for the next day’s paper was a story that President George W. Bush had specifically asked the paper not to run, revealing that the National Security Agency had been wiretapping Americans without using warrants.

The President had made the request in person, nine days before, in an Oval Office meeting with publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., executive editor Bill Keller and Washington bureau chief Phil Taubman, according to Times sources familiar with the meeting.<snip>


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guys was more successful in its secrecy. If you don't believe there is coersion between the military-reverends-banking-more-haves-barons-corporations-PNAC-RNC-Federalist Society-think tankers - you must study up.

Barons - the no faces for whom all of the above groups work.

A beleaguered president decides to personally put the lid on anything he doesn't want printed.

The fact that they printed the story anyway tells volumes...

It means that Bush does not have complete control of this country, much to his chagrin. He tries, but he just can't seem to wrap his arms around it.

The Times finally got the message: you are a newspaper, and your customers expect you to publish timely factual information to fight corruption, not White House lies to enable it.

Revenge of the nerds!