Bush's Attempt To Stop The Story

According to Jonathan Alter of Newsweek, in a December 19th article (updated Dec. 21st), "Bush summoned Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and executive editor Bill Keller to the Oval Office...to talk them out of running the story."

The President didn't want the story of the NSA wiretaps to become pubic because it would damage his image. But as Constance Rice, Executive Director of The Advancement Project, commented in the 5th annual MPAC Convention that our current efforts are failing, as shown in the many terrorists attacks after 9/11 including the London subway attacks. The US is not only failing to stop terrorists, we are taking the rights of Americans away at the same time.

The Bush Administration needs to rethink the way it is fighting the war on terrorism and look to see if the little red tape is worth the while. As I previously posted, it would not be hard to get a warrant, even AFTER the actual wiretap. It is that Bush and the agencies that are involved in this do not want to be accountable or show the number of actual taps. Without the warrants we do not know how many taps are carried out and that is a danger that the US Government and the American people should not stand for.