key people, the competent public servants who make government work, either leave or are driven out
Equally they deliberately held back from publication the work of other journalists who wanted to expose the extent of the FISA violations, as such would be politically damaging for the bush administration, the one they pretend they criticise now. Indeed the story was ready before the 2004 election, when such a revelation might have brought Kerry to office who might not have had an arabian horse trader in change of FEMA when Katrina hit.
So the NYT is entirely incapable of lecturing the republicans for ideological idiocies when it was they themselves that enabled and cheerled them. Equally, the NYT doesn't have the credibility to inform the electorate about the iniquities of the republicans because half the time they would have to resort to the 5th amendment to avoid admitting their own collusion. keep to the Fen Causeway
This is a common practice in the UK where writers who have ideological differences with a newspaper at least acknowledge the fact that the difference exists. keep to the Fen Causeway
