NewsDiffs.com : The New York Times edited its damning editorial condemning the Obama administration shortly after the editorial was published online Thursday afternoon.

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The Daily Caller

New York Times quietly changes published editorial to make it less damning of Obama

The New York Times edited its damning editorial condemning the Obama administration for collecting phone call data from Americans to make it less stinging shortly after the editorial was published online Thursday afternoon. The editorial originally declared that the Obama “administration has lost all credibility” as a result of the recently revealed news that the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been secretly collecting call data from American users of Verizon under the authority of the Patriot Act. But hours later the stinging sentence had been modified to read the Obama “administration has now lost all credibility on this issue.” [Emphasis added]


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POLITICO

NYT: Obama admin 'has lost all credibility'

By DYLAN BYERS |

6/6/13 4:49 PM EDT

The New York Times editorial board responded to revelations about the NSA's gathering of Americans' phone records with a scathing editorial on Thursday afternoon condemning the Obama administration for abusing the power of the executive branch. "Within hours of the disclosure... the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every time President Obama has been caught overreaching in the use of his powers: Terrorists are a real menace and you should just trust us to deal with them because we have internal mechanisms (that we are not going to tell you about) to make sure we do not violate your rights," the Times editorial read. "Those reassurances have never been persuasive — whether on secret warrants to scoop up a news agency’s phone records or secret orders to kill an American suspected of terrorism — especially coming from a president who once promised transparency and accountability," it contineud. "The administration has now lost all credibility. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it."   Read Full Article Here

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