Bad timing for Bush on eavesdropping claims

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=e241251454bab26f

The news reports Friday that President George W. Bush authorized electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens without court permission broke on the president at the worst possible time.

It was a time when he was pushing hard to reclaim his credibility with the American public over Iraq, but getting hammered on torture and other national security issues at the same time.

Ironically, had the story broken in the months after the mega-terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, killed 2,800 people, the president might have been able to shrug it off easily.

The New York Times reported Friday that in 2002 the president personally authorized the National Security Agency to monitor the international phone calls and international e-mails of at least hundreds and probably thousands of people in the United States without warrants in an effort to track-called "dirty numbers" linked to al-Qaida.
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Its about time the NYT stepped up...

[cliss]

1. Well, thank you New York Times for holding out on us.

If you were trying to help your "crony", it backfired. Now Bush looks like an evil weasel, even to his last few supporters. The article said that Bush was "furious" about the leak.

Better late than never, eh?

[Demeter]

2. There is Never a Good Time To Be Caught Wrong-Doing!

although it would have been better for the nation if he could have been outed back in 2001.