[Reporters] try hard not to base those decisions on political calculations, like whether a story would help or hurt the administration. It is certainly unlikely that anyone who wanted to hurt the Bush administration politically would try to do so by writing about the government's extensive efforts to make it difficult for terrorists to wire large sums of money.
This jumped out at me. It's interesting that after the NY Times ran this story, and the previous one about phone call surveillance, that supporters of the Administration jumped to accuse the NY Times of partisan attacks on the President and even treason -- when, in fact, looking like it's doing something to prevent terrorism could very well have been spun by the administration as proof they're doing their job. Very telling. Very, very telling, that they did not.
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Date: 2006-06-28 02:22 pm (UTC)This jumped out at me. It's interesting that after the NY Times ran this story, and the previous one about phone call surveillance, that supporters of the Administration jumped to accuse the NY Times of partisan attacks on the President and even treason -- when, in fact, looking like it's doing something to prevent terrorism could very well have been spun by the administration as proof they're doing their job. Very telling. Very, very telling, that they did not.