There may be a few elements of truth to this story, but The New York Times
no longer has any journalistic credibility for thinking minds. From the
Jayson Blair incident through the Guantanamo Bay front page stories to the
recent complete abdication of impartiality in pushing for Obama's election,
the NY Times blatant bias has become a national embarrassment. It often
retracts its own stories.
Which raises a serious question for the Listserv. How do we identify poorly
presented blatantly biased citations and references on this list? Without
getting into major political debates. I suggest that we not directly copy
news content into the Listserv, but rather simply indicate their content and
provide some hyperlinks to the sources. I for one read next to nothing that
appears in the NY Times, as you can only expecting exposes and retractions
shortly afterward.
Your thoughts Peter?
John
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Subject: Exit, Stonewalling - NY Times 01/04/09 Sunday Editorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/opinion/04sun2.html
EDITORIAL
Exit, Stonewalling
True to its mania for secrecy, the Bush administration is leaving behind
vast gaps in the most sensitive White House e-mail records, and with lawyers
and public interest groups in hot pursuit of information that deserves to be
part of the permanent historical record.
E-mail messages that have gone suspiciously missing are estimated to number
in the millions. These could illuminate some of the administration's darker
moments, including the lead-up to the Iraq war, when intelligence was
distorted, the destruction of videotapes of C.I.A. torture interrogations,
and the vindictive outing of the C.I.A. operative Valerie Plame Wilson.
The deep-sixed history also includes improper business conducted by more
than 50 White House appointees via e-mail at the Republican Party
headquarters. Historians and archivists are suing the administration. We
should be grateful for their efforts. Entire days of e-mail records have
turned up conveniently blank at the offices of President Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney.
Mr. Cheney, of course, retreats from sunshine with the wariness of Alucard;
he is fighting to the last the transfer of his records to the National
Archives, as required by law. He recently argued in court that he "alone may
determine what constitutes vice presidential records or personal records."
As in: L'etat c'est Dick.
Modern administrations from Ronald Reagan's to Bill Clinton's typically
tried to evade at least some disclosure obligations under the public
archives law. But the Bush team, from day one, has flouted the requirement
to preserve a truthful record, ignoring repeated warnings from the National
Archives. In government agencies, the public's freedom-of-information rights
have been maliciously hobbled.
The National Archives is further burdened by the steady and inevitable
growth in digital records - a mass 50 times larger than that left eight
years ago by the Clinton administration. It will take years to ingest before
historians can truly get a handle on what is missing.
History is truly the poorer for the Bush administration. President-elect
Barack Obama must quickly undo the damage by ordering that records be
shielded from political interference, by repairing the
freedom-of-information process, and by ending the abuse of the
classification process to cloak the truths of the presidency.
More Articles in Opinion >A version of this article appeared in print on
January 4, 2009, on page WK7 of the New York edition.
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