Bullypulpit
Senior Member
After watching Chimpy McPresident have his hissy-fit about the New York Times "leaking" the story about his program to secretly monitor the financial transactions of suspected terrorists, I can only conclude one thing. He is less conserned about the leak than having the story reported.
It's a repeat of his reaction to the NY Times story about his little domestic spying program. Then, as now, he was angry and defensive, not because of a leak, but because a story resulted from the leaked information. This administration simply cannot tolerate having its actions exposed to the light of day...Oversight, even as pathetically inadequate as that provided by his lap-dog Congress, is simply intolerable.
The Times was doing its job in reporting the story. Someone inside the Administration leaked the information to a reporter, and the reporter did his job in reporting the story. That's how a free press works. But Chimpy and his supporters went all Orwellian and began calling for prosecution of the reporter, editor and publisher of the NY Times. Why aren't they so anxious to find the leaker? Bill Frist as much as said there was going to be nmo investigation, as he made his rounds of the Sunday talk shows.
Seems it's just business as usual for the Bush Administration...Deny everything...Admit nothing...
It's a repeat of his reaction to the NY Times story about his little domestic spying program. Then, as now, he was angry and defensive, not because of a leak, but because a story resulted from the leaked information. This administration simply cannot tolerate having its actions exposed to the light of day...Oversight, even as pathetically inadequate as that provided by his lap-dog Congress, is simply intolerable.
The Times was doing its job in reporting the story. Someone inside the Administration leaked the information to a reporter, and the reporter did his job in reporting the story. That's how a free press works. But Chimpy and his supporters went all Orwellian and began calling for prosecution of the reporter, editor and publisher of the NY Times. Why aren't they so anxious to find the leaker? Bill Frist as much as said there was going to be nmo investigation, as he made his rounds of the Sunday talk shows.
Seems it's just business as usual for the Bush Administration...Deny everything...Admit nothing...