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Was the New York Times right to publish details of a secret program that allows spies to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant?


Yes, we need to know 71% 3034 votes

No, security needs secrecy 29% 1226 votes
Total: 4260 votes

www.cnn.com

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www.cnn.com

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/17/bush.nsa/index.html

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Remember the holy hell raised by the RW and the MSM after that? How has the last 5 years of media dealings with GW Bushit been any better than the way they sucked up to Saddam? CNN did what they thought they had to in order to operate under a murderous regime and the MSM has been forced into the same bargain with the devil currently occupying the WH.

We can only hope to soon see the brave people who history will hale as the saviors of the American dream. If not, some far off history will mark the fall of another corrupt empire that overwhelmed an idealistic dream that once was known as "democracy".

Nothing new to see here...

No, "security needs secrecy."

Once again, fuck you CNN, and fuck all of your fucking fascist enemies of freedom!

the "news" network that spent an ENTIRE FUCKING DAY on the "runaway bride" story after it was discovered that she'd left on her own, while Iraq suffered several coordinated attacks that very day, causing horrendous damage, and they didn't utter a peep about it?

Was the New York Times right to publish details of a secret program that allows spies to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant?

Yes, we need to know 71% 4011 votes

No, security needs secrecy 29% 1637 votes
Total: 5648 votes

That is the role of the media in a democracy.

a loser and his ship is sinking as we speak.

period

The program "enables" spies to eavesdrop illegally.

Was the New York Times right to publish details of a secret program that allows spies to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant?
Yes, we need to know


71%

5029 votes
No, security needs secrecy


29%

2029 votes
Total: 7058 votes

WHY did they sit on this for so long?

It makes me sick to hear Bush BLAME the media which enabled his "election"

Was the New York Times right to publish details of a secret program that allows spies to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant?
Yes, we need to know 71% 5029 votes
No, security needs secrecy


29%

2029 votes
Total: 7058 votes

I don't watch anymore, but this crap is certifiable...These people need to be put out on the street.

slame the messenger. typical behavior from the WH.


......In acknowledging the message was true, President Bush took aim at the messenger Saturday, saying that The New York Times jeopardized national security by revealing that he authorized wiretaps on U.S. citizens after September 11. The president said he allowed the NSA "to intercept the international communications of people with known links to al Qaeda." Publishing details of the program "damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk," Bush said.

Sad day'

After hearing Bush's response, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, said there was no law allowing the president's actions and that "it's a sad day."

"He's trying to claim somehow that the authorization for the Afghanistan attack after 9/11 permitted this, and that's just absurd," Feingold said. "There's not a single senator or member of Congress who thought we were authorizing wiretaps."

He added that the law clearly lays out how to obtain permission for wiretaps.

"If he needs a wiretap, the authority is already there -- the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act," Feingold said. "They can ask for a warrant to do that, and even if there's an emergency situation, they can go for 72 hours as long as they give notice at the end of 72 hours."

But in a Friday statement, Executive Editor Bill Keller said the newspaper postponed publication of the article for a year at the White House's request, while editors pondered the national security issues surrounding the release of the information.

But after considering the legal and civil liberties aspects, and determining that the story could be written without jeopardizing intelligence operations, the paper ran the story, Keller said, emphasizing that information about many NSA eavesdropping operations is public record.

CNN has not confirmed the exact wording of the president's order.

The political ramifications of the newspaper's report were felt even before Bush acknowledged the report's veracity.

In particular, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, said such behavior by the executive branch "can't be condoned," and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, said the report swayed his decision on the Patriot Act proposal.

"Today's revelation that the government listened in on thousands of phone conversations without getting a warrant is shocking and has greatly influenced my vote," Schumer said. "Today's revelation makes it very clear that we have to be very careful -- very careful."

Specter, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, added Friday that his committee would immediately begin investigating the matter.

voted

Thanks.

Yes, we need to know 70% 11524 votes

No, security needs secrecy 30% 5032 votes

They shouldn't have held on to the story for a year.

A whole year they let Bush break the law and spy on people.

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:kick:

Absolutely!

Enough already with this clandestine and secretive administration.