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Times Editors Denies Key Element of GQ Harman Story
Matthew Yglesias —
... One of several hot contentions in this morning’s explosive CQ story about Jane Harman was the contention that Harman helped persuade the New York Times to delay running its expose of the Bush administration’s warantless surveillance program. Greg Sargent has an on-the-record denial of this element of the story from NYT executive editor Bill Keller. ...
Moral Relativism At Its Best
Comments from Left Field —
... Seems the CQ Story is falling apart as the NY Times denies ever talking to Harman regarding the NSA-FISA story. Where there is one error, there are probably others. ...
The Harman-AIPAC Story: A Timeline
TPMMuckraker —
... , saying he "needed Jane" to publicly support the administration's warrantless wiretapping program, which was now, finally, about to be exposed by the Times. Gonzales told Goss that Harman had helped persuade the Times to hold the earlier story on the program (a claim Times executive editor Bill Keller today appeared to deny, though his statement was narrowly worded), and could serve as an important public defender of the program. ...
Remainders: Nudge
Ben Smith's Blog —
... and Scheiber try to define Obamaism as a different kind of third way, involving nudging.
Carrie Budoff-Brown reports that the GOP is nowhere on healthcare.
Cheney urges declassification.(!)
McCain liked the risk that came with Palin.
Steele liked the choice of Palin over Pawlenty.
Tech guru Tim O'Reilly loves Aneesh Chopra.
Jeff Goldberg wonders about the Harman story, and the Saban story.
Bill Keller denies a piece of it.
An Israeli legislator calls on Rahm Emanuel to, ...
Harman, Gonzo, and the NSA: Lots of Questions
Daily Kos —
... both point out, these were approved wiretaps, so she wasn't really hoisted by her own warrantless wiretap-loving petard. Second, Greg pokes a hole in part of the story. He contacted NYT executive editor Bill Keller, and got a flat denial that Harman had helped delay the wiretapping story until after the 2004 election. The Bush administration apparently did that all on it's own. ...
Suspicious Mind
The Reaction —
... Greg Sargent: New York Times Exec Editor Denies Harman Helped Persuade Him To Hold Wiretapping Story ...
Harman is more than a bad Democrat - She's a criminal
Newshoggers.com —
... , saying he "needed Jane" to publicly support the administration's warrantless wiretapping program, which was now, finally, about to be exposed by the Times. Gonzales told Goss that Harman had helped persuade the Times to hold the earlier story on the program (a claim Times executive editor Bill Keller today appeared to deny, though his statement was narrowly worded), and could serve as an important public defender of the program. ...
NYT Confirms Harman Pushed to Spike NSA Story Before ‘04 Election, Offered AIPAC Help
Firedoglake —
... Here's the even more interesting part of the story, though: yesterday, Bill Keller denied Harman had any role in persuading him to hold the NYTimes wiretapping story. No mention of contact with Pinch. Or not. Curious. ...
Ruh Roh
Suburban Guerrilla —
... is that Harman may have privately tried to kill the story in 2004. Yesterday Times executive editor Bill Keller said that Harman hadn’t spoken to him or influenced his decision. ...
Representative Harman 'Urged' Times To Not Publish Wiretapping Expose
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... privy to the events, Gonzales said he "needed Jane" to help support the administration's warrantless wiretapping program, which was about to be exposed by the New York Times.
Harman, he told Goss, had helped persuade the newspaper to hold the wiretap story before, on the eve of the 2004 elections. And although it was too late to stop the Times from publishing now, she could be counted on again to help defend the program.
Yesterday, the Times Bill Keller gave Greg Sargent some denial-like substance:
"Ms. Harman did not ...
Harman Wiretap Ties-In With NYT Failure To Expose Domestic Spying in 2004. Does the Times Have More Explaining To Do?
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... this otherwise outstanding article on warrantless eavesdropping — and now the confirmation of pre-election decisions to delay publication — The Times owes it to readers to set the official record straight. There's more in the public editor's 2006 column to suggest that Keller carefully parsed his words, at a minimum, and avoided coming clean about the events surrounding the timing of the release of the story. In 2009, Keller again remains circumspect, to put it generously. First he released a statement to Greg Sargent at the Plumline saying, "Ms. Harman did not influence my ...
