Times confirms Democrat tried to stop wiretapping story, possibly before 2004 election

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/21/times-confirms-democrat-tried-to-stop-wiretapping-story-possibly-before-2004-election/


By John Byrne

Published: April 21, 2009
Updated 8 hours ago


The New York Times confirmed late Monday that a top Democratic congresswoman called the paper in 2004 and tried to keep it from publishing an article exposing the Bush Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program — possibly helping to sway the balance in the 2004 presidential election.

The New York Times exposed the warrantless wiretapping program in 2005, revealing that the National Security Agency had engaged in the interception of thousands of American and foreign calls without a warrant as part of a program intended to disrupt terrorist plots. Upon running the story, they also admitted that they had withheld the article for a year at the urging of Bush Administration officials.

[Skink]

1. Which Dino?

[Duer 157099]

2. Harman, no doubt n/t

[politicasista]

3. Not to echo McCain, but

yep. That one.

[Fireweed247]

4. This begs the question...

Which team is she on? How many people who we defend as Democrats, are actually playing for the other team?

[FLAprogressive]

5. I'd say at least 50-60% of them.

[SoCalDem]

6. Bush was on shaky ground then, and the release of the wiretapping fiasco

could have made the difference for Kerry... I remember how mad we all were at the Times for holding the story until it was too late to affect the election...looks like we had TWO trees to bark up:grr:

[robinlynne]

8. That's what we've been saying for years!!!! Glad it's finally confirmed.

[chill_wind]

7. K& R.