Time magazine refused to either publicly acknowledge or correct the record after receiving the following letter from the chairmen of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees.
To the editors of TIME Magazine
Joe Klein recently criticized the RESTORE Act (“The Tone Deaf Democrats,” Nov. 21, 2007), claiming that it “would require the surveillance of every foreign-terrorist target’s calls to be approved by the FISA court.” This is incorrect. The RESTORE Act creates “basket” authorizations to allow widespread surveillance of foreign powers (such as Al Qaeda) and their agents. To prevent a repeat of the Bush Administration’s extra-legal warrantless wiretapping program, the court must approve the parameters of the group surveillance to ensure that warrants are still obtained for Americans’ communications. But no court orders are required for surveillance of foreigners reasonably believed to be outside of the country. The bill simply will not make our intelligence agencies get thousands of warrants for foreign terrorists.
The RESTORE Act’s blend of executive branch flexibility, court approval, and congressional oversight is calibrated to ensure that the fight against terrorism is conducted in an efficient and constitutional manner. We would hope that Mr. Klein, having studied the RESTORE Act further, is no longer so confused as to continue to characterize our system of constitutional checks and balances as “well beyond stupid.”
John Conyers, Jr. and Silvestre Reyes
I have written letters to the editor to Time magazine and been disappointed that they didn’t publish them, but I am not a congressional committee chair. If Time Newsweek can offer a column to Karl Rove, you’d think they could publish a letter from committee chairs. But they won’t do it. The reason they won’t do it is open to interpretation. But their refusal to correct the record is astonishing. Consider that they also received letters from Senator Feingold, Rep. Rush Holt, and over 100 individuals telling them that Joe Klein was in error.
To date, their only correction was to note that the Democrats have a different opinion than the Republicans over FISA. And that correction was not placed in their print edition. They refused to publish any letters to the editor on the issue.
Any print subscriber to Time has no way of knowing that Joe Klein published something 180 degrees away from the truth in last week’s edition.
Why is that?
Rove writes for Newsweek. It is hard to tell them apart.
yeah, it is. Here’s Conyers on Klein.
Because every country should have it’s own Pravda?
That’s already covered by the Moonie Times.
Can they subpoena the editors and force them to answer?
With everything that is going on in the world, the President lying once again to try and get us into another war, with our civil liberties swirling down the crapper and the middle class disappearing like something in a Criss Angel Mindfreak trick, we have one of our Big Three network anchors asking stuff like this of presidential candidates.
Jeez-a-loo, does anyone give a flying f#@%ck what kind of answer they give to a question like that? Put a sock in it, Katie!
But hey, Rick Kaplan, executive producer of the “CBS Evening News, is all for this mindless drivel being pumped out.
Like Charlie Brown is so fond of saying, “We’re doomed”.
I canceled my Time subscription last month (and am feeling rather smug about it now). I let my Newsweek lapse last summer. I don’t miss either magazine. Not one bit. From now on I’ll be getting all my national political news from ESPN Mag. /snark
From now on I’ll be getting all my national political news from ESPN Mag
Not The Onion?
I might still see stories quoting Karl Rove in The Onion. ESPN Mag is much less likely to give me an aneurysm.
From Feingold’s office:
“Why is that?” Come on now Boo, Are you serious? Have you forgotten the Plame case? Have you forgotten Schiavo, Just to nam two examples of their plan. The list is endless. This is just one more action of this administration that fits perfectly into the plan that the chimp pointed out when he said to all of us: you go about your business…….!
If you listened to that creature yesterday you know that you are listening to a stupid liar that is totally scripted and every single messenger has to be controlled. Each time these evil bastards find a way to point out their power and ability to destroy any opposition, they will take it.
just a quick look at the latest plan to reduce the publics ability to become informed! The fcc push for reduced control of the purchasing ability of the airways. So, once again, Why is that?
Puleeeze!