New York Times deletes idiotic paragraph, thanks to Glenn Greenwald

[Becky72]

Glenn Greenwald keeps getting results.

As you probably know by now, Britain just foiled a terrorist plot thanks to their legal (with a warrant) wiretapping of the suspects.

But a moron writing for the New York Times who goes by the name of Robert Mackey (in charge of The Lede blog) played dumb, pretending that liberals oppose surveillance on terrorism suspect, without making the distinctino between legal or illegal

Mackey asked this stupid question earlier:

Given the continuing controversy in the United States over N.S.A. surveillance when it involves U.S. citizens, do readers who oppose letting the authorities read the private e-mail correspondence of Americans feel any differently about the issue knowing that the agency’s monitoring of these foreign nationals may have helped disrupt a major plot in this case?

As you see, Mackey implies that liberals oppose reading private emails, which is wrong.

Thankfully, Greenwald reports that "has now removed that paragraph, noting in an update that "the controversy in the United States over the N.S.A. surveillance program is limited to the screening of communications by U.S. citizens without a warrant."

Indeed, this is a victory for liberals, who have often argued that warrants are sufficient to guard us against attacks.

link to New York Times' article, with now-removed falsehood: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/e-mail-read-by-nsa-helped-convict-liquid-bomb-plotters/

link to Greenwald's story:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/08/law/index.html

[Luminous Animal]

1. Kick. Go Greenwald!

He' a peach!

[DCKit]

2. It's a crying shame that, so recently considered THE "paper of record", the NYT...

now has to be embarrassed into retracting blatant misrepresentations of fact. It is apparent that the definition of "Editor" is as corrupted as those of "Reporter", "Conservative", "Family Values" and "Christian" in the M$M.

Thank you Mr. Greenwald.

[Cherchez la Femme]

3. I love reading Greenwald

He is so consistently good, it's incredible.
I wish he'd run for public office.