Two options

Option 1: The New York Times thinks its readers can’t do basic math.

Option 2: The New York Times relies on its readers to read between the lines to suss out government lies.

You be the judge:

But an intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because surveillance operations are classified, said: “It’s inevitable that these things will happen. It’s not weekly, but it’s common.”

A report in 2006 by the Justice Department inspector general found more than 100 violations of federal wiretap law in the two prior years by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, many of them considered technical and inadvertent.

Let’s see…100 violations in two years…52 weeks a year…sounds like “weekly” to me.

(Yes, yes, you could make a tiny argument that the reporter meant to imply that “these things” were Really Big Violations, not the garden variety of — wait a second, are we actually buying into the claim that some violations of the law are just technically wrong and not, you know, actually wrong? Phooey on that.)

posted by Sra. Bibliotecaria ⋅ tagged civil liberties, language, media, politics, technology

Comments are closed.