As I commented below, the New York Times withheld an article from the front page today – an article critical of Vice President Cheney. Raw story now reports:
"A picture that has emerged from hours of testimony and reams of documents in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. has shattered any notion that the White House was operating as a model of cohesion in President Bush’s first term," Jim Rutenberg writes in an article now slated for the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times.
"For example, witnesses from the highest levels of the administration have painted a portrait of a vice president with free rein to operate inside the White House as he saw fit to rebut a war critic shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein," the article continues. "The trial testimony has also called into question whether Cheney, known as a consummate inside player, operated as effectively as his reputation would warrant."
Several friends and commentors have surmised that it was held at the request of lawyers from one or the other [or both] sides in the Libby Trial. I would have had that opinion two years ago. Back then, I didn’t go in for conspiracy theories. I don’t now, in fact, want to go in for such reflexly suspicious interpretations. But, this Administration has made things different for me. My immediate reaction was that Cheney, or someone else in the government, had done another media number.I don’t like feeling this kind of paranoia. I don’t like sifting through what my government officials say to figure out what they are really doing. I know politics is a lot of behind the scenes game playing, but this feels different to me. It’s the rule for things to be manipulated. Now, I read that an article has been pulled, and I’m immediately suspicious.
The shame of it? More times than not, I’ll be right…
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