Snoopgate: The shameful presidency of George W. Bush
Did President Bush try to kill the Snoopgate story before it broke? Jonathan Alter has the rather disturbing story at Newsweek.
Apparently, Bush met with New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and executive editor Bill Keller in the Oval Office in a desperate, last-minute, and "futile attempt to talk them out of running the story": "Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story -- which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year -- because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker."
Yet another shameful act -- putting such pathetic pressure on the press, not to mention the far more shameful act of breaking the law -- of a truly shameful presidency.
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
8:28 AM
1 Comments:
I don't know. It seems like there's more to the story than this, and Alter seems to be injecting a great deal of his own opinion and very little in the way of fact. We still don't know why the Times published the story last week instead of last year. Alter's musings don't add anything to that discussion for me.
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Tom Strong, at 10:47 AM
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