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David Johnston

• November 11 -- No Lingering “Glow” Once the “Civil Rights Groups” Start Hammering
In the forthcoming confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales, the Times has found two sides. On one side are “conservatives” who find Gonzales is not “sufficiently hardline.” On the other are “Democrats” and “civil rights groups” who worry about the new pick’s tolerance for prison abuse.

• August 9 -- Still Harping on Bush's Terror-Warning Timing
Two stories focus on the timing of the latest terror alerts. David Johnston and Richard Stevenson insist: "Among many of the administration's critics and even, to a more limited degree, among some of its allies, Mr. Ridge's performance was seen as fueling disbelief and cynicism," while Eric Lichtblau and Eric Lipton say: "Terrorism experts said the Bush administration may have also hurt its own cause and inspired public skepticism this week in how it alerted the public to the possible attacks."

• August 4 -- Bush Playing Politics With Terror?, Part III
David Johnston and Eric Lichtblau: "Senior administration officials said the action was not driven by election-year considerations, but by intelligence reports that described an orchestrated surveillance operation at several large financial institutions. It is now apparent that the information had significant gaps and omissions."

• July 29 -- You Can Trust Kerry, Says Baghdad Jim
David Johnston and Marc Santora couch criticism of Kerry's shifting war stance as "Republican attacks" and "talking points," while bringing in the dubious Rep. Jim (Bush is a liar) McDermott to defend Kerry.

• July 26 -- Downplaying Al Qaeda-Iraq Ties, Again
In a front-page story on the 9/11 Commission's final report, Times reporters again try to minimize proven ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq.

• July 23 -- Sandy Berger "Disrupted" Millennium Terror Plot?
After a string of blame-Bush stories in the Times, reporters David Johnston and Douglas Jehl squelch most of the anti-Bush bias in their story on the 9/11 commission's final report. But some misinformation still leaks through.

• July 19 -- Failing to Own Up to Joe Wilson's Credibility Collapse
When will the NYT admit its favorite anti-war horse has come up lame?

• July 14 -- Ignoring Sen. Rockefeller's WMD Hypocrisy
It wasn't just Bush saying Hussein had WMD: So did Democratic Sen. John Rockefeller. But David Johnston's story on the Senate intelligence report ignores that while letting Rockefeller criticize Bush for making statements similar to ones from Rockefeller himself.

• June 30 -- Who's the Most Polarizing Republican of All?
David Johnson and Richard Stevenson file a story on "polarizing" Attorney General John Ashcroft, days after Stevenson relayed criticisms that Dick Cheney was "among the most polarizing figures in politics."

• April 19 -- Bush Told "Lower Manhattan" an al-Qaeda Target?
A front-page story by David Johnston and Jim Dwyer makes an erroneous claim about the Presidential Daily Briefing memo that makes the terrorist threat warning sound more specific than it was: "It said that Qaeda operatives…could be focusing on a building in Lower Manhattan as a target."

• March 29 -- Still Standing Up For Clarke
The Times paints Clarke's 9-11 testimony as confirming the Bush administration's worst fears, while cheering Clinton's anti-terror efforts: "The evidence suggests that Mr. Bush allowed the terrorism issue to drift down the list of White House priorities from the relatively high importance given it by President Bill Clinton's national security aides."

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