May 12, 2006
Hotline After Dark -- What's That Tapping Sound?
Solving crimes on "CSI," solving the latest wire tapping scandal on cable.
The fallout from the USA Today story on the NSA's phone call database continued last night. NPR's
Liasson: "The interesting thing to me about this story is that the New York Times must be feeling pretty bad today because this was -- they did several stories about this quite a while ago" ("Special Report," FNC, 5/11).
Snip...
MSNBC's
Olbermann: "The good news, if you lost Aunt Gertrude's number, or that of the girl you met, maybe the NSA has it in your file" ("Countdown," 5/11).
MSNBC's
Scarborough: "Memo to the president and congressional leaders who signed up on this lousy program -- We don't trust you anymore" ("Scarborough Country," 5/11).
CNN's
Cafferty: "We better all hope nothing happens to
Arlen Specter ... because he might be all that is standing between us and a full-blown dictatorship in this country" ("Situation Room," 5/11).
Snip...
Newt Gingrich: "I'm not going to defend the indefensible. ... I'm prepared to defend a very aggressive anti-terrorist campaign, and I'm prepared to defend the idea that the government ought to know who's making the calls, as long as that information is only used against terrorists, and as long as the Congress knows that it's underway. But I don't think the way they've handled this can be defended by reasonable people. It is sloppy" ("Hannity & Colmes," FNC, 5/11).
Sen.
Dick Durbin (D-IL): "It is an embarrassment to think that members of Congress didn't know, weren't brought into the loop, didn't have a basic understanding of what we are trying to achieve" ("PZ Now," CNN, 5/11).
more...
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/05/hotline_after_d_28.html