Turnabout Is Fair Play
Feb 27th, 2006 at 9:06 pm by Susie
Good. It’a bout time the media stopped rolling over and playing dead:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times sued the U.S. Defense Department on Monday demanding that it hand over documents about the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program.
The Times wants a list of documents including all internal memos and e-mails about the program of monitoring phone calls without court approval. It also seeks the names of the people or groups identified by it.
The Times in December broke the story that the NSA had begun intercepting domestic communications believed linked to al Qaeda following the September 11 attacks. That provoked renewed criticism of the way U.S.
President George W. Bush is handling his declared war on terrorism.Bush called the disclosure of the program to the Times a “shameful act” and the U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into who leaked it.
[...] About this NSA news, NYT sues Pentagon over domestic spying Suburban Guerrilla writes, Good. It’a bout time the media stopped rolling over and playing dead [...]