Another disturbing thought for today
Taking a quick look around the conservative blogosphere and as well as the punditsphere, there isn’t a lot of optimism being expressed in light of today’s Supreme Court decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Richard Cohen: The Miami 7 arrests were over-hyped
I blogged on Sunday about some of the strange reactions coming out of the MSM and the left regarding the arrest of the Miami 7– I noted how the ‘skeptics’ of the arrests were implying, if not outright saying that the arrests weren’t that big a deal, that we should give them the benefit of the doubt (a press rule that doesn’t apply when the accused are members of the US military), and that they might have even been ‘entrapped.’
Keller: “…not all of them urged us not to publish”
In the continuing firestorm over the decision of the NYT to publish the bank transaction monitoring story comes this important tidbit of information, from Allah at Hot Air: In an interview the NYT’s Bill Keller gave to CNN, he pointed out that three people outside of the administration (who were, incidentally, Democrats – Correction: Tom Kean is a Republican – a commenter whose comment I accidentally deleted pointed that out) were asked to call the NYT about the story prior to its being published to urge them not to publish. Two people of the three did exactly that: urging the NYT not to publish were 9-11 Commission co-chairs Governor Tom Kean and Congressman Lee Hamilton.
I love this guy!
Just caught Expose The Left’s video of Tony Snow answering a pressie’s question on the President’s reaction to the NYT’s publishing of the story on financial transaction monitoring, a program the gov’t uses to track terrorists. Check out the question and Tony’s response: