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Gold9472
01-03-2006, 09:46 PM
NYT sources: Times plans new splash on NSA surveillance

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/NYT_sources_Times_plans_new_splash_0103.html

1/3/2006

The New York Times' Eric Lichtblau is writing a major story that editors are considering for the front page of Wednesday's editions of the paper with new developments on the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance, RAW STORY can reveal.

Just weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency expanded its domestic surveillance powers, apparently without any specific presidential directive, according to declassified documents released to the Times Tuesday.

The Times has drawn fire from both the right and left for their revelation that President Bush authorized the wiretapping of international phone calls made from within the United States. The paper held the story for a year, and withheld some information from their report at the request of the administration, agreeing that some of the facts might deleteriously affect the war on terror.

The Times story, released on the eve of the Patriot Act's reauthorization, may have singlehandedly blocked the controversial measure from being renewed.