June 30, 2006

Bush attack on NYT could have 'chilling influence,' Overseas Press Club warns
"A serious blow to press freedom and to the long-range good of the country."

Defending the New York Times's recent disclosures of secret government programs to monitor Americans' overseas phone calls and financial transactions, the Overseas Press Club of America today told [the Dictator-tot] that his administration's attacks on the Times could have a "chilling influence" on editors around the country.
OPC President Richard Stolley wrote Preznit Poopypants, using pictures and everything, that his Vice President singled out the Times "in particular," even though both the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times had also broken the story.
Stolley said it is "by no means an open case" that the secret programs were legal, and added that "it is hard to believe that the terrorists did not suspect that their activities were being monitored." President Bush and other top officials, he noted, have repeatedly warned that they were tracking terrorists' financial transactions.

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