Snoopgate in the News
WASHINGTON/POLITICS
COMMENTARY
Offered with minimal commentary for your unfettered perusal, a collection of articles about Snoopgate. Fo' Shizzle.
NEWSLINES
"The president was so desperate to kill The New York Times’ eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper’s editor and publisher to the Oval Office. But it wasn’t just out of concern about national security."
"The Times will not comment on the meeting." Quotes taken directly from the Newsweek article Bush's Snoopgate, by Jonathan Alter.
NEWSBYTES
The one that started it, speculation and all
Bush’s Snoopgate
Dec. 19, 2005 (Newsweek) -- Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power. President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate—he made it seem as if those who didn’t agree with him wanted to leave us vulnerable to Al Qaeda—but it will not work. We’re seeing clearly now that Bush thought 9/11 gave him license to act like a dictator, or in his own mind, no doubt, like Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
Bush to keep domestic surveillance program
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush said he would continue to authorize a National Security Agency program that monitors communications even in the United States.
Bush's Spying: Scandalous, or Echo of Clinton-Era "Echelon"?
(NewsBusters) Travel caused me to miss Friday's big lead scoop in the New York Times on domestic spying by the National Security Agency ("Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts"), but the rest of the blogosphere took the story on from multiple angles, questioning the pieces timing, agenda, even its newsworthiness.
TENSION: Divisive
GRAVITY: Status quo
Tags: politics, News, terrorism, Middle East, White House, Iraq, war, journalism, mainstream media, press, current events, Bush
COMMENTARY Offered with minimal commentary for your unfettered perusal, a collection of articles about Snoopgate. Fo' Shizzle.
NEWSLINES
"The president was so desperate to kill The New York Times’ eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper’s editor and publisher to the Oval Office. But it wasn’t just out of concern about national security."
"The Times will not comment on the meeting." Quotes taken directly from the Newsweek article Bush's Snoopgate, by Jonathan Alter.
NEWSBYTES
The one that started it, speculation and all
Bush’s Snoopgate
Dec. 19, 2005 (Newsweek) -- Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power. President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate—he made it seem as if those who didn’t agree with him wanted to leave us vulnerable to Al Qaeda—but it will not work. We’re seeing clearly now that Bush thought 9/11 gave him license to act like a dictator, or in his own mind, no doubt, like Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
Bush to keep domestic surveillance program
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush said he would continue to authorize a National Security Agency program that monitors communications even in the United States.
Bush's Spying: Scandalous, or Echo of Clinton-Era "Echelon"?
(NewsBusters) Travel caused me to miss Friday's big lead scoop in the New York Times on domestic spying by the National Security Agency ("Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts"), but the rest of the blogosphere took the story on from multiple angles, questioning the pieces timing, agenda, even its newsworthiness.
TENSION: Divisive
GRAVITY: Status quo
Tags: politics, News, terrorism, Middle East, White House, Iraq, war, journalism, mainstream media, press, current events, Bush
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