I think Arthur believes that the president may have cracked a smile on when the bringing down the Brooklyn

bridge item came up, but maybe that's just a wishful memory.

The president then played his Trump card, threatening that the New York

Times would be responsible for the next attack. He said, you know, listen, if you guys

publish this article and there is another 9-11,

we're going to be called before Congress to explain how we failed to prevent it.

And you should be in the chair beside us explaining because you'll

be complicit in allowing damage to our country.

He was saying in effect, you,

Arthur Salsberger, will have blood on your hands

if there's another attack that could have been prevented by this program.

You know, I think anybody would feel goosebumps.

The New York Times broke the story about the national security.

Nevertheless, the Times decided to publish the story,

revealing the existence of the program.

Four years now, the NSA has been secretly spying on its own citizens.

The New York Times story in December 2005 just shocked the world.

The extent of unchecked domestic surveillance

is far greater than previously reported.

It is the definition in most people's minds

of illegal government activity.

With the bombshell of a story in the New York Times today that the NSA. activity. We call it the big pause. Okay, when stuff like this goes public,

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