Sloppy bias if not out-and-out dishonesty is endemic in the reporting on the administration's terrorist surveillance programs. This is from another Times piece

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/washington/15intelcnd.html?ex=1305259200&en=b4caef3927f12eff&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

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President Bush's national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, insisted today that a newly disclosed government effort to compile data on millions of telephone calls in search of terrorist-linked calling patterns was a legal and "narrowly designed program" that did not involve listening to individual calls.

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The headline: "Bush Aide Defends Eavesdropping on Phone Calls"--although in fact he is noting that the program in question doesn't involve eavesdropping.