Will the New York Times Finally Be Indicted?
6th August 2007
Read it. Only if they decide to hire Scooter Libbey.
How did the Bush administration follow up? Faced with the politically explosive challenge of indicting our country’s leading newspaper, it did nothing at all. It was rewarded for its forbearance by another New York Times sensation, a front-page story in May 2006 revealing the details of a second highly classified counterterrorism program that worked through the European banking consortium SWIFT.
If you reward bad behavior, you only get more bad behavior.