White House outrage over wiretap story is 'smokescreen'

[jasmeel]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Rich_White_House_outrage_over_wiretap_0107.html

The White House outrage over the New York Times breaking the NSA wiretapping story is a "smokescreen," Frank Rich writes in his Sunday Times column, RAW STORY has learned.

For one, an episode of a cable television mini-series featured a terrorist worrying about NSA taps almost two weeks before the original Times story was published on December 16, Rich argues. The columnist almost wonders if the Bush Administration tapped journalists and political opponents.

Rich claims the motive for attacking the press is to "deflect attention from embarrassing revelations about its incompetence and failures," and that other leaks may soon reveal "what the White House is really so defensive about."
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This story is still developing but I find the last sentence quite interesting...Could it be Abramoff that they're worried about. Any ideas???
Another thread was started on this topic in GD.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x75885

[FloridaPat]

1. The NYT had it 6 month ago or so. They knew all this time.

Yes, just a smokescreen. More hypocrisy.