Dear Editor,
I applaud your courageous editorial, June 28, 2006, defending your decision to publish the shadowy surveillance of bank data by this thoroughly discredited administration. The White House has repeatedly lied to the American people and has attempted to justify every egregious action by its ‘concern to protect the American people’ and slamming the media for exposing its illegal actions and misdeeds. Does anyone believe that Karl Rove, and his gang of neocon Swift Boaters would hesitate to use this sensitive information to advance the GOP’s political agenda? Have we so quickly forgotten the exposure of Valerie Plame, as a CIA operative by the White House? The outcome of the ’04 election might well have been different if The Times had not withheld publication of the government’s illegal anti-terror wiretapping. If only The Times had been more aggressive in challenging this administration, before the Iraq debacle, we might not be having this debate.
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