White House Says NYT Story Has Undermined Americans---'RIGHT TO LIVE'

VIDEO: Snow Lashes Out at Media, Suggests NYT Has Undermined Americans’ ‘Right to Live’

President Bush today called the New York Times story revealing the administration’s monitoring of bank records “disgraceful,” and said the decision to publish details of the program “does great harm to the United States of America.”

Press Secretary Tony Snow followed up with another attack at today’s press briefing:

The New York Times and other news organizations ought to think long and hard about whether a public’s right to know in some cases might override somebody’s right to live, and whether in fact the publications of these could place in jeopardy the safety of fellow Americans.


Watch it:http://images1.americanprogress.org/il80web20037/ThinkProgress/2006/snownyt.320.240.mov

Asked whether the White House attacks on the New York Times represented an effort “to create a chilling effect on media outlets,” Snow responded, “I don’t think so.”

Transcript at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/26/snow-nyt/

does the story about the administration's spying on Americans, put Americans at risk?

:sarcasm:

More hypocrisy from the Masters of Hypocrisy. It's OK if they do it, and if it serves their purposes. But other than that, forget it!

Big Brother is watching, and with each new revelation Americans should realize what was once our great country is disappearing. Freedom, rights, and liberties define being an American. Yet the Bush Administration/GOP are taking those very things away from us.

The terrorists are winning.

Frankly I think it is a good thing

What is this "right to live" crap? The NYT has a DUTY to inform the American people when its government is acting in an unconstitutional manner - we NEED to know what the hell they're doing! My God - they're accusing the NYT's of killing Americans by providing them with information. :grr:

We all have a "right to know" - this is OUR country.

on common people Buxh shrugged his shoulders and told us "I can do this, and nobody can stop us". He didn't seem to care much that we were indignant.

Now it's learned he spying on international banking.
These are people who can stop him.

The giants of business don't want their transactions surveyed by anyone, and we know where Republicans get their campaign cash.

That may be why Buxh seems so angered this time.

is Rove still working at the White House? How many lives at risk because of that leak? Why is Rove still working at the White House after it's been established that Rove leaked a CIA operative's identity to the media? Tony? White House press corps? NYT? LA Times? WSJ?

typewriter.

Thanks for reminding me.

.... put Americans at risk by any chance?

wasn't this case decided in favor of Daniel Ellsberg -- by a unanimous court? . . .

Not to mention about 100,000 Iraqis. And, those are real bodies, not fabricated maybe's.

Watch that movie, and tell me it was maybe hyperbole a few months ago-but getting closer everyday. At least I'm awake. I'm not sleeping. But it's not much comfort. I think the reason that movie didn't do very well is it was too close for comfort. Those that tell the truth are traitors.