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Question the Media: Lichtblau Live Blog

By Big Tent Democrat

By Big Tent Democrat

mcjoan has a live blog going with NY Times reporter Eric Lichtblau who broke the warrantless surveillance story. He is discussing his new book on the subject:

As political bombshells go, the headline that popped up on New York Times Web site on December 15, 2005, "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts," was a pretty big one, the biggest in the chronicling of the Bush administration's "war on terror." The story had been well over a year in the making, the process of it coming to light filled with nearly as much intrigue as the story itself.

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Eric Lichtblau and his colleague James Risen won a much deserved Pulitzer prize for that story. They also won the enmity of the administration and the right wing Wurlitzer. Just this year, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell predicted that "some Americans are going to die" because of the public debate. Now that the full story of Lichtblau's and Risen's reporting on the NSA warrantless wiretapping, on torture, on FBI- and CIA-bungled operations, on Cheney and Gonzales and Addington and Bradbury and Ashcroft and Yoo, is compiled in one coherent and compelling book by Mr. Lichtblau, he's like to see his press pass, one revoked but restored by the Pentagon, permanently black-listed.

Ask the reporter.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 07, 2008 (boomark / email).