In a shamelessly timed article published today, the NYT is claiming to have opened Pandora’s Box, and what has jumped out is the privacy-eating boogie man:

James Rainey reports that the curious timing of last Friday’s New York Times story was designed, not to trample on the good news from Iraq as some conservatives contend, but to prevent being scooped by a book written by its own reporters.

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The story of the NSA operation to conduct wiretaps on international communications in the fight against terrorism continues to reverberate in the blogosphere. I have little to add to the words of the distinguished commentators linked below, except to n…

Do the leakers really deserve the death penalty? My first reaction is that it depends on their motivation. They may very well have thought that they were doing the right thing. My more considered reaction is that their motivation is irrelevant. Innoc…

The New York Times is reporting that the spooks at the National Security Agency(NSA) have begun clandestinely eavesdropping on U.S. citizens. The NSA is a group that is so secretive that, up until recently, most people had never even heard…

George Will … on “This Week” put the matter very succinctly, when he said (paraphrasing) “the founders clearly intended that no branch of government should be the one to decide the scope of its own power.”

Obviously, President Bush’s approval of domestic spying is a huge story. As is usual, because of the scope of the story, and the possibilities of what all of us don’t know, the response has been polarized in the extreme. (For…

I’ve been surprised by a few people questioning me (in person and via phone) about the headlines on Friday. I immediately thought of the virtually non-existent headlines concerning the free vote in Iraq, but I knew that’s not what they we…

Baldilocks goes off The president should be angry that there are government officials who would leak classified activities which are designed to protect the citizens of the United States. I’m incredibly angry about it, especially since I know th…

Unlike my co-blogger, I didn’t see NSAgate coming. In retrospect I suppose it shouldn’t come as a surprise, but it did. Having had a little time to think about it, I’m still torn. On the one hand, one of the

Apparently so.
James Risen, NY Slimes reporter, has a book coming out in early 2006. You guessed it: another Left-spin, anti-Bush, anti-WOT garbage-in-a-flashy-cover, misinformation piece.
So how does the Slimes help sell the book hit piece? By helping

Apparently so.
James Risen, NY Slimes reporter, has a book coming out in early 2006. You guessed it: another Left-spin, anti-Bush, anti-WOT garbage-in-a-flashy-cover, misinformation piece.
So how does the Slimes help sell the book hit piece? By helping

Baldilocks goes off The president should be angry that there are government officials who would leak classified activities which are designed to protect the citizens of the United States. I’m incredibly angry about it, especially since I know th…

The revelation by the New York Times on Friday that Dubya has ordered extra-legal spying on American citizens may be the tipping point that finally causes moderate Republicans to retake control of the party. Congressmen from both sides of the aisle were

The transcript of the President’s radio address today (emphasis mine):

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.

As Pre…