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Eric Lichtblau

• 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.

• November 10 -- Ashcroft’s “Excesses” vs. Arafat’s “Aura”
One sign the New York Times is a liberal newspaper is when Attorney General John Ashcroft gets rougher press than a terrorist. On the Times front page, Ashcroft is assailed by critics for sacrificing civil liberties, while the dying Palestinian leader Arafat was a cult hero, touted as a “guerrilla fighter and Nobel Prize winner.”

• 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 22 -- Still Spinning the Berger Burglary
Eric Lichtblau and David Sanger work some anti-Bush spin into their front-page story on the Sandy Berger investigation: "…the campaign accused the White House of deliberately leaking news of the investigation and said that Vice President Dick Cheney was involved in strategies to divert attention from the Sept. 11 report to be issued Thursday." Since getting into legal hot water, Berger's apparently been demoted by the Times.

• July 21 -- Bungling The Sandy Berger Burglary
The Times offleads with the wacky Sandy Berger story, but reporter Eric Lichtblau doesn't mention Berger apparently took classified documents on more than one occasion. The Times' earlier coverage also leaves out a lot.

• June 16 -- The U.S. "Scolding" in San Francisco
A liberal judge scolds; liberal peace activists talk; reporter Eric Lichtblau listens. But does he have the full story?

• May 27 -- Bush's Response to Terror Threats: Either Passive Or Politicized
First the Times jumps on Bush for not acting on vague terrorist threats in a daily briefing he received a month before 9-11. Yet when John Ashcroft speaks out about a new Al Qaeda threat, they question the political timing in the headline and story.

• April 29 -- Snell and the Terrorist’s Plea Bargain
The Times promoted the “Quiet but Aggressive Staff” on the 9-11 Commission. The story’s lead character, Dietrich Snell, tells the Times that he heard a terror suspect promise revenge as he was led away. The New York Daily News had a slightly different story in 2001.

• April 19 -- John Ashcroft, Loser
Adam Nagourney and Eric Lichtblau fill in their scorecard for the 9/11 Commission, and put Attorney General John Ashcroft firmly in the loser category: "By the time he was finished, even some Republicans were saying he might have been better off staying at home, and some commission members suggested he may have damaged his relations with them."

• April 12 -- Where "PDB" Means "Pin Damage on Bush"
The Times uses the August 2001 "President's Daily Briefing" to hit Bush for allegedly missing clues to 9-11--despite the memo's lack of detail.

• March 29 -- NYT Provides Platform for "Dick Clarke's American Grandstand"
Eric Lichtblau claims Richard Clarke's stories stand up to scrutiny, even though a 2002 press briefing by Clarke utterly contradicts his current anti-Bush claims.

• March 9 -- Changing The Subject: From Partial-Birth To An Assault On Privacy
In "Administration Sets Forth A Limited View on Privacy," Robert Pear and Eric Lichtblau change the subject from fighting partial-birth abortion to a Bush assault on medical privacy.

• January 15 -- "Conservatives" vs. "Democrats"
Eric Lichtblau and James Risen pit "conservatives" versus plain old "Democrats" in a story on a 9/11 task force.