Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Diminishing Returns
Via NRO's Bench Memos:
On August 18, 2006, the New York Times heralded a decision by Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ordering the shutdown of the NSA's terrorist surviellance program with a 1,400-word story by Adam Liptak and Eric Lichtblau. After a Sixth Circuit panel overturned Diggs' ruling, the Times ran a 900-word story by Liptak on July 7, 2007.
Today the Times published news that the Supreme Court ruled the ACLU had no standing in an appeal of the Sixth Circuit's ruling. The item appeared in the tenth paragraph of a story on page 15.
Surprise, surprise: the American newspaper most committed to undermining this President, even at the cost of national security, buries a Supreme Court ruling that underscores the President's constitutional authority to order warrantless surveillance.
On August 18, 2006, the New York Times heralded a decision by Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ordering the shutdown of the NSA's terrorist surviellance program with a 1,400-word story by Adam Liptak and Eric Lichtblau. After a Sixth Circuit panel overturned Diggs' ruling, the Times ran a 900-word story by Liptak on July 7, 2007.
Today the Times published news that the Supreme Court ruled the ACLU had no standing in an appeal of the Sixth Circuit's ruling. The item appeared in the tenth paragraph of a story on page 15.
Surprise, surprise: the American newspaper most committed to undermining this President, even at the cost of national security, buries a Supreme Court ruling that underscores the President's constitutional authority to order warrantless surveillance.
