More Amazing Stuff On PoliceStateGate

You can't really blame Bush for trying to get the New York Times to cancel their story on how BushCo was eavesdropping on American citizens without a warrant, particularly when you read stuff like this (via Kos):

George W. Bush, in Buffalo, NY, on April 20, 2004, at 9:49 a.m., talking about the USA Patriot Act:

Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution.

It's just amazing. Bush was so desperate to put the Patriot Act in a good light that he stood before the country and outright lied. Bush has put a new spin on the Nazi's "the bigger the lie the more people will believe it" idea. Bush obviously thinks that the more he lies, the more people will become anesthetized to all of his lying.

And if that doesn't piss you off, then this might:

The New York Times first debated publishing a story about secret eavesdropping on Americans as early as last fall, before the 2004 presidential election.

But the newspaper held the story for more than a year and only revealed the secret wiretaps last Friday, when it became apparent a book by one of its reporters was about to break the news, according to journalists familiar with the paper's internal discussions.

Needless to say, 2005 has been a pretty embarrassing year for the New York Times. But I just can't believe that The Times had a story as big as PoliceStateGate -- a story that unequivocally exposed George W. Bush as a criminal -- and they just sat on it.