NYT Draws Ire For Use Of Anonymous Sources
Over the weekend, The New York Times published an article examining the internal debate at the Justice Department in 2005 about interrogation techniques. In the days since, the paper has been chastised by numerous bloggers for defending Bush officials.
Although the bloggers do an excellent job of laying out the controversy themselves, here is some background:
Citing three previously undisclosed emails between deputy attorney general James Comey and his chief of staff Chuck Rosenberg, as well as “interviews and newly declassified documents,” the Times concluded that “some of the lawyers…went along with a 2005 legal opinion asserting that the techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency were lawful.”
The Times also included Comey’s three
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