President Obama’s Dragnet (New York Times)

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By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Within hours of the disclosure that federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every time President Obama has been caught overreaching in the use of his powers: Terrorists are a real menace and you should just trust us to deal with them because we have internal mechanisms (that we are not going to tell you about) to make sure we do not violate your rights.

 Those reassurances have never been persuasive — whether on secret warrants to scoop up a news agency’s phone records or secret orders to kill an American suspected of terrorism — especially coming from a president who once promised transparency and accountability.

 The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html?_r=1&

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They lost all credibility long before this latest scandal.

The NYT is late for the party.

[Articulate Ape]

This editorial commentary should act as notice to President Obama that he has managed to lose even the diehard support of a state-run media with his shoe polish on their tongues. It took this latest millstone to break the back of a camel laden with a plethora of millstones, but even the sycophantic NYT has had to acknowledge what we have all known for so very long.  I will give them a smidgeon of credit just because, well, better late than never.

[DefiantSix]

They lost all credibility long before this latest scandal.

The NYT is late for the party.

Don't worry; the NY Slimes doesn't mean all the bad shit they sayin' 'bout Barry Big Ears right now. They're just venting. This weekend all the hard feelings will blow over and the Slimes Editorial board will give Dear Leader the make-up hummer to beat all make-up hummers.

That relationship will be good as new come Monday morning.

[Articulate Ape]

Don't worry; the NY Slimes doesn't mean all the bad shit they sayin' 'bout Barry Big Ears right now. They're just venting. This weekend all the hard feelings will blow over and the Slimes Editorial board will give Dear Leader the make-up hummer to beat all make-up hummers.

That relationship will be good as new come Monday morning.

Sadly, you are probably right.

[docstew]

While the op-ed rightfully takes the regime to task for this BS, and calls defenses offered by Dems "lame", it doesn't lay blame for what's happening where it should. The blame should be on the regime for REQUESTING these records, but the Slimes blames the EXISTENCE of the Patriot Act, and therefore, Bush.

[Linda]

Of course it is Bush's fault...obama can't be blamed for anything, after all he is our 1st black president and his reputation shall not be tarnished..NO MATER WHAT HAPPENS!!!!!

[Linda]

Don't worry; the NY Slimes doesn't mean all the bad shit they sayin' 'bout Barry Big Ears right now. They're just venting. This weekend all the hard feelings will blow over and the Slimes Editorial board will give Dear Leader the make-up hummer to beat all make-up hummers.

That relationship will be good as new come Monday morning.

Looks like they didn't wait till Monday Morning...

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

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/06/new-york-times-quietly-changes-published-editorial-to-make-it-less-damning-of-obama/#ixzz2VXBYmjZF

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]