NYT wrong to report banking surveillance

[ice-nine]

In a "mea culpa" appended to the end of his column on Sunday, the ombudsman for the New York Times now says that the paper was wrong to report on the Bush Administration's "once-secret banking-data surveillance program."




http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/NY_Times_ombudsman_now_says_paper_1023.html

[Hoodoo]

They weren't wrong to report it-Bush was wrong in doing the snooping.I'm not willing to sacrifice one bit of freedom for any amount of safety--unfortunately I'm not being given a choice.

[markw76]

It's a rather knife-edge balancing act, gathering enough information to be able to interdict or derail the plans to blow up people here, and not being so overbearing that the constitution is trampled too badly. After all, constitutionality is just a court decision away. We're all still waiting for the courts to admit our system of taxation is way out in left field, right?
In the old days, J Edgar would've handled it all, the badguys would be toast, and nobody would have found out about the improprieties. From what I've read, when the FBI asked for something back then, people fell all over themselves to cooperate. Ah, the old days...:D

[Hoodoo]

"Constitution trampled too badly"? I don't want it trampled at all. We're way past that though-it's been stomped into the mud.

[markw76]

I don't like it either, but there always seems to be some judge or other that decides what I consider unconstitutional as permissable. That, and Congress doesn't seem to be able to write a bill that will either make sure we pay as little as possible or the cost won't go up seemingly out of control. What they need is contract negotiaters, not lawyers, in that business.