Reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg profiled the parlous political state of the allegedly lame duck President Bush in Saturday's "For [1]President Bush, a Reversal of Fortune on His Political Capital [1]."
But first, Stolberg provided more misleading on a U.S. anti-terrorist surveillance program: "After a string of Republican defections this week - on Iraq, immigration and domestic eavesdropping - President Bush enters the final 18 months of his presidency in danger of losing control over a party that once marched in lockstep with him."
As Times Watch has said [2]before [2]and will no doubt say again: The National Security Agency's spy program monitors international communications from suspected terrorists in America, not domestic. It's an important distinction, one the Times invariably fails [3] to note, perhaps in order to make the program sound more like an invasion of privacy than it is.