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In the October 22, 2006 issue of the New York Times, Public Editor Byron Calame finally admits that the disclosure of the S.W.I.F.T. banking data collection program was not a good idea:

This is essentially what I said on a local liberal blog about 4 months earlier:

So, in the meantime, because the “paper of record” decided back in June that the people’s right to know was more important than national security, an effective intelligence program used to follow the money in terrorist operations was compromised.  And what does the old gray lady have to say about it?  Oops.  We were wrong.  Never mind.

And all the fear mongering about journalists being whisked off to concentration camps in the dead of night?  Well, that didn’t happen, either. Here’s the original post at PTS:

Remember this the next time a liberal cries, “Wolf!” about eroding civil liberties in one breath, and then calls conservatives alarmists in the next.

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