Is Bush breaking the law?
If you're not sure whether Bush violated federal law by authorizing the NSA wiretap program, this post will clear things up. There are some questions that need to be answered here, such as why the New York Times waited a year until publishing this story, and why Bush circumvented the FISA act, which already gave him the power of warrantless surveillance in broad situations.
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soooo..... why did the NYT wait a year?
From the LATimes today:
"The publication was not timed to the Iraqi election, the Patriot Act debate, Jim's forthcoming book or any other event," Keller said in a statement. "We published the story when we did because after much hard work it was fully reported, checked and ready, and because, after listening respectfully to the administration's objections, we were convinced there was no good reason not to publish it."
The newspaper had reported Friday that it held publication of the story for "a year" because the White House had argued that it "could jeopardize continuing investigations and alert would-be terrorists that they might be under scrutiny."
-So that's two possibilities.
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