Posted on 05/19/2006 1:18:53 PM PDT by george76
Leslie Cauley, the USA Today reporter who last week “broke” the news that three major U.S. telecommunications companies were assisting the National Security Agency in building a database to more easily track any communications by potential terrorists, is listed as a donor to former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt...
A search found a listing for "writer and journalist" Leslie Cauley, indicating she gave $2,000 to Gephardt on June 30, 2003, when Gephardt was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
And that seems not to be her only tie to Democratic politics ...
Cauley's link to a Democratic campaign seems likely to further cloud the credibility of her story...
There have also been questions about the timing of the story, which was given huge play on USA Today’s front-pages shortly before the former head of the National Security Agency, General Michael Hayden, was due to face confirmation hearings to be the next CIA director...
With the phone companies demanding a retraction and her own Democratic connections now revealed, the “value” of her unnamed sources seems increasingly dubious.
Could Leslie Cauley may be on her way to becoming a print version of CBS’s disgraced Mary Mapes?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Me too, pretty much...but I do invoke his name everytime wifey gives me my haircuts and proceeds to trim the eyebrows. I always admonish her, "Don't Gephardt me, Sweetie!"
Did ANY telecommunications company give ANY information to the NSA ANYWHERE at ANYTIME?...............it seems that they didn't ...........
He knew what to do when his domestic political enemies threatened the union.
FDR knew what to do as well.
This President is clueless.
The enemy understands that W has screwed the pooch.
He has allowed leftists at home and abroad to win the propaganda war.
The administration hasn't even waged a credible domestic propaganda campaign to drum up support for the WOT.
It's basically incompetence.
The enemy has a strategy and a gameplan.
Our game plan depends on who is in the White House in 2008.
McInsane?
Shrillary?
Jon Queri?
Giuliani?
Be very afraid.
Quoting...
Leslie Cauley’s Democratic campaign contributions seem not to be her only tie to liberal politics.
Before Cauley joined USA Today, she teamed up with former AT&T and Global Crossing executive Leo Hindery to write a book on business deals, “Biggest Game of All.”
But Hindery is not just a businessman — he’s listed as a major donor to Democratic candidates and the Democratic Party, and was even mentioned by The Hill newspaper as a possible DNC chairman in late 2004.
So far...
AT&T, Verizon, and Bellsouth ...
There may be more soon.
Can anybody provide a link? It's not a matter of trust, mind you, but the BellSouth story has buried the others, and I'd like some ammo for my regular Friday argument at the bar.
It's hard enough just getting the phone service fixed, which is the primary purpose of those customer service "techs". Getting top-level information is way beyond their grasp and way beyond their level of responsibility. I don't doubt that USAToday called somebody well outside of those that might know about these things. Their answer was probably "we'll look into it and get back to you", which should have been enough to give USAToday pause, but they apparently wanted the "scoop" or wanted to drag somebody on the right through the mud.
It's too bad that the left owns the vast majority of the media news.
Surely it can't be by accident that nearly everyone that works in the MSM is so totally without principle or morals and is so evil?
All those characteristics are prerequisite to graduating with a Liberal Arts degree in Journalism. It's not an accident - it's by design.
Bump
AFter reading the phone company's statement, I can not understand how USA Today viewed it as "confirmation" of their story! REgardless, the company...WITH their NAMES attached... is saying it is untrue and demanding a retraction. Seems to me that anonymous sources who won't stand behind their own words are the likely liars...not the company.
Does USAToady still fill it's pages with all those colorful, bright and shiny pie charts and graphs? Idiots like colorful, bright and shiny things. Text is hard. Graphics are cool. Especially if you're a Liberal.
You can start here.
http://wizbangblog.com/2006/05/19/stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-one-before.php
Please let me know if you need more.
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=NY&last=Cauley&first=Leslie
Friday’s USA Today carries BellSouth’s demand of a retraction on page 4A,
below a more prominent story headlined “Senators challenge Hayden on surveillance,” with partial transcripts of General Hayden being asked yesterday about the claimed NSA database program.
According to today’s USA Today:
“BellSouth asked USA Today on Thursday to ‘retract the false and unsubstantiated statements’ about the company that it contends were in a May 11 story about a database of domestic calling records maintained by the National Security Agency.
In a letter to the newspaper's publisher, Craig Moon, the company noted that the story said BellSouth is ‘working under contract with the NSA’ to provide ‘phone call records of tens of millions of Americans’ that have been incorporated into the database.
‘No such proof was offered by your newspaper because no such contracts exist,’ stated the letter, portions of which were read by spokesman Jeff Battcher. ‘You have offered no proof that BellSouth provided massive calling data to the NSA as part of a warrantless program because it simply did not happen.’
Steve Anderson, a USA Today spokesman, said ‘We did receive the letter this afternoon. We are reviewing it, and we will be responding.’...
http://newsbusters.org/node/5435
She should have used some of that money she gave to the dimorats and bought a hair brush! Ain't saying she's ugly, but I'll bet you she could gag a maggot off a gut truck. She seems to be a real charmer, got big bucks writing the book with the slimeball,then got "very close" to him, then when he sobered up and ran her off, she called him every name in the book. Real sweetheart here.
TIME magazine is just as bad. The new issue is blaring about "domestic spying" and how such evil eavesdroppers should not head CIA.
You and everybody else.
...awfully funny.
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