Another reason to hate the times.

They printed Judy Miller's tripe for months. They beat the drums for war. They get painted as a liberal paper (when they're really only liberal in comparison to dreck like the Post and Daily News), and they claim to be a New York City paper while owning a second rate baseball team 200 miles north of here. But recently I've found a new reason to hate them. The article they ran on Dumbya's wiretap program? They sat on it for a YEAR. Which means they knew about, oh, I don't know... before November 2nd?

From Salon:

But still. When voters went to the polls in November, the New York Times knew -- but didn't tell its readers -- that the Bush administration had been lying about Scooter Libby's role in the outing of Valerie Plame. It now appears that the New York Times also knew -- but didn't tell its readers -- that the Bush administration had been spying on American citizens in violation of an act of Congress. The Times isn't alone in keeping secrets from its readers: Reporters at the Washington Post and Time magazine also knew about White House involvement in Plame's outing, for example, but chose to let Scott McClellan's denials stand through Election Day in favor of protecting their sources.

Fuck those clowns.