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This is a disgrace. Pure and simple. What if this story had made it out of the NYT Editor's secrets drawer a year ago, as it should have? This amounts to a campaign contribution from the Gray Lady to Bush-Cheney '04. They couldn't publish the story because the terrorists would figure out they were being watched? Unbelievable. They buried the story after caving to the White House's national security "argument" to shield its reelectability? Hmmmm... shameful and believable. What other stories are the editors of the "paper of record" agreeing not to publish in the interest of preserving national (polling) security? What else are we not being told?

I can't even bring myself to really address the perniciousness of a White House that attempts to control the press using such a patently manipulative "argument" (and succeeds!). Who's "playing politics" with national security now? This administration thinks that whenever they mention these two words, "national security", it means nothing further can be reported, questioned, or criticized. So it doesn't matter what they do--they can get away with anything by saying those magic words. It is amazing that they get away with something that so deeply violates what I hope are still our national priniciples, values, and ideas.

First Judith Miller and now this? If I ever hear President Bush or any Republican make a flippant remark about the "lefty New York Times" or the "liberal media" again, I expect the Earth will collapse into a singularity composed entirely of infinitely dense irony. The media has gone beyond being sympathetic to the administration--it has become a co-conspirator.