NY Times : ‘The Administration Has Now Lost All Credibility’ by Jongsstraw

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NY Times : ‘The Administration Has Now Lost All Credibility’

POSTED BY: JONGSSTRAW
UPDATED: Friday, June 7, 2013 08:41
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Thursday, June 6, 2013 12:14 PM

'Reacting to the news that the administration’s National Security Agency has been collecting the phone records of every American customer of at least one telephone service provider, the New York Times minced no words in a scathing editorial criticizing the practice and the lack of forthrightness from the White House.

“The administration has now lost all credibility,” the Times editorial read. “Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it.”

The Times called the White House’s “platitudes” regarding how effective the practice is at deterring or preventing terrorist attacks unpersuasive.

“There is every reason to believe the federal government has been collecting every bit of information about every American’s phone calls except the words actually exchanged in those calls,” the Times editorial board noted.

They call the defense of this practice offered by Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) “absurd.”

Mr. Obama clearly had no intention of revealing this eavesdropping, just as he would not have acknowledged the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, had it not been reported in the press. Even then, it took him more than a year and a half to acknowledge the killing, and he is still keeping secret the protocol by which he makes such decisions.

The Times concludes by calling for the curtailing or outright repeal of the Patriot Act of 2001, noting that it is clear to them that federal authorities cannot be trusted with such sweeping powers.'

http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-york-times-editorial-board-the-admi
nistration-has-now-lost-all-credibility/

If the NY Times Editorial Board wrote a hundred editorials condemning the Obama Administration, it still wouldn't wash the stink off their hands for promoting and defending it for almost six years.

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Thursday, June 6, 2013 12:19 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

They're just saying that because there's a black man in the White House, I bet.

Or... is he?

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Friday, June 7, 2013 3:20 AM

JONGSSTRAW

Kinda saw this coming.............

N.Y. Times changes scathing editorial

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/06/ny-times-changes-scathing-
editorial-165650.html

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Friday, June 7, 2013 6:35 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Yeah, because it was actually started (in its current incarnation) under BUSH, and BOTH parties find it oh-so-useful.

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Friday, June 7, 2013 7:00 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Kinda saw this coming.............

N.Y. Times changes scathing editorial

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/06/ny-times-changes-scathing-
editorial-165650.html]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/06/07/nyt_obama_nsa_op_ed_
times_quietly_walks_back_blistering_criticism.html

The New York Times' Small But Significant Change to Its Blistering Obama Criticism

By Josh Voorhees

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Posted Friday, June 7, 2013, at 9:42 AM

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After that "lost all credibility" line spread like wildfire on Twitter and around the Web, the Times brass apparently had second thoughts on its word choice. The version that's now live, and the one that appeared in this morning's paper, includes a small but significant change:
Quote:

The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue.

The bold is from Slate.

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Friday, June 7, 2013 7:19 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Glad to see you coming around to our POV jongsie! So, when can we see you DOING something about it to get the laws changed that seem to allow this?

ENJOY YOUR NEXT FOUR YEARS!

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Friday, June 7, 2013 8:41 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

The NY Times has now officially lost all credibility.

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New York Times quietly changes published editorial to make it less damning of Obama

The New York Times edited its damning editorial condemning the Obama administration for collecting phone call data from Americans to make it less stinging shortly after the editorial was published online Thursday afternoon.

The editorial originally declared that the Obama “administration has lost all credibility” as a result of the recently revealed news that the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been secretly collecting call data from American users of Verizon under the authority of the Patriot Act.

But hours later the stinging sentence had been modified to read the Obama “administration has now lost all credibility on this issue.” [Emphasis added]

According to NewsDiffs.com, a website which tracks changes to online articles, at 3:34 p.m. ET the editorial damned the Obama administration generally and by 7:09 p.m. ET it had been edited to damn the Obama administration more narrowly over its collection of call data.

NewsDiffs also showed that several other modifications had been made to the editorial, but none as significant as its change to the originally broad condemnation of the Obama administration.

The new version of the article contains no indication that it has been changed.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/06/new-york-times-quietly-changes-publi
shed-editorial-to-make-it-less-damning-of-obama/

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