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[sigma7]

Dammit. First The West Wing's Leo McGarry, John Spencer, dies (he was turning 59 next week). And then we get the choice piece of info that not only has the National Security Agency been freely snooping on American citizens (sans warrant) for the longest time, and not only is the administration perfectly fine with that, but (and here's where it gets actually surprising) the New York Times knew about it for a year and held the story at the administration's request.

Christ, why bother having a newspaper? If you're not printing this, then what else is more important, more worthy of putting ink to paper for? Appalling. Shameful.

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[bishop282.livejournal.com]

Of course they held the information. The guys got a book coming out soon. What better way to gin up interest in the book. When is the investigation into the leaking of classified information going to start? As we learned in the outing of non-covert Valerie "Hidden in Plain Sight" Plame case, leaking information is bad. Mark Levin has a good take (http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_12_11_corner-archive.asp#084896) on the matter. He closes with this great line, "I cannot remember the last time, or first time, this newspaper (the Times) reported a leak that was helpful to our war effort. "