'Disgrace' Under Pressure
(CBS)
President Bush: "Congress was briefed. And what we did was fully authorized under the law. And the disclosure of this program is disgraceful."
Vice President Cheney: "What is doubly disturbing for me is, not only have they gone forward with these stories, but they've been rewarded for it, for example in the case of the terrorists surveillance program by being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for outstanding journalism. I think that is a disgrace."
Rep. Peter King: "And I'm calling on the attorney general to begin a criminal investigation and prosecution of The New York Times, its reporters, the editors that worked on this, and the publisher. We're in time of war, Chris, and what they've done here is absolutely disgraceful. I believe they violated the Espionage Act, the Comint Act. This is absolutely disgraceful."
Notice any similarities?
Yes, in a stunning coincidence, Bush, Cheney, and King all independently came to the conclusion that the decision by the New York Times and other newspapers to publish a report on a secret government program examining bank data was a disgrace. A disgraceful disgrace, in fact. We haven't seen a coincidence this amazing since a number of Republicans somehow independently stumbled upon the exact same language to describe Democrats' plan for Iraq.
