Did President Bush try to kill the Snoopgate story before it broke? Jonathan Alter has the rather disturbing story at Newsweek.
Apparently, Bush met with New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and executive editor Bill Keller in the Oval Office in a desperate, last-minute, and "futile attempt to talk them out of running the story": "Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story -- which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year -- because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker."
Yet another shameful act -- putting such pathetic pressure on the press, not to mention the far more shameful act of breaking the law -- of a truly shameful presidency.
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