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CIA

• November 23 -- Bush Should Squeeze Congress, Says Suddenly Supportive Times
Suddenly, the Times favors Bush pressuring Congress: "A number of Congressional Republicans and members of the Sept. 11 commission….said that Mr. Bush, who has vowed to revive the bill, also needed to put pressure on a handful of House members aligned with the Pentagon who defied the president over the weekend and blocked a final vote on the legislation."

• November 17 -- Is the New CIA Chief "Suppressing Dissent"?
New C.I.A. chief Porter Goss won't be catching any breaks at the Times, judging by the coverage so far: "The newest spymaster lays down the law. Some see his move as suppressing dissent."

• August 12 -- Still Haunted by Max Cleland's Loss
Katharine Seelye's front-page story shows Democrats (and the NYT) still obsessed over Sen. Max Cleland's 2002 defeat: "Republicans ran a television commercial showing pictures of Mr. Cleland, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and said Mr. Cleland 'voted against the president's vital homeland security efforts 11 times.' Mr. Cleland lost his seat."

• August 11 -- Can Goss Boss the CIA?
Poisoning the well for Rep. Porter Goss, Bush's choice to head the CIA: "…his recent actions…have angered a number of senior C.I.A. officials, which could make it difficult for him to work with many of the holdovers from the Tenet era." Another piece intones: "Mr. Goss has engendered considerable ill will within the very organization he has been tapped to lead."

• June 4 -- "Ludicrous Visions" of US Troops Showered With Flowers?
An editorial on George Tenet's resignation slams "one of the more ludicrous visions offered by Mr. Rumsfeld's team, like the one of grateful Iraqis showering American soldiers with flowers." Yet the paper's own reporting shows that "ludicrous vision" was absolutely accurate.

• June 4 -- Sanger's Thesaurus
David Sanger's analysis of the surprise resignation of C.I.A. Director George Tenet claims Bush sold the war in Iraq as an "immediate necessity." Hey, what happened to "imminent threat?"

• January 22 -- Douglas Jehl's Dubious CIA Sources
Douglas Jehl pumps up the import of a group of retired CIA agents pressing Congress for an inquiry into Valerie Plame, but leaves out the left-wing anti-war connections of some members.

• August 8 -- Times Hacks Bob Novak Facts
Douglas Jehl sympathizes with the trials of Joseph Wilson, the instigator of the Bush-uranium-Niger controversy, and accuses columnist Robert Novak of outing his wife as a “covert C.I.A. operative.” Well, Novak didn’t, but Jehl apparently just did.

E-mail TimesWatch Director, Clay Waters, with TimesWatch feedback at cwaters@mediaresearch.org