Matt Drudge (motto: Often wrong, but when right, very importantly right) reveals that the NY Times revelation that the Bush White House authorized wiretaps without warrants on terror suspects after 9/11 was timed to coincide with the publication of a book on the subject by a Times reporter.
Meanwhile, President Bush has labeled the leaking of the practice a breach of national security, noted that it has been confined to the monitoring of communications between people in the United States and those outside the country, and noted that members of Congress have been briefed on the procedure multiple times.
In a comment on an earlier post, gentle reader tim notes the controversy on commercial interests in the marketing of the Narnia film. SWNID notes here the confluence of commercial interest in the disclosing of sensitive information on the part of our Newspaper of Record.
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