Bush Condemns, Keller Defends Bank Data Story
President Bush said the N.Y. Times' disclosures about the administration's bank data-mining program did "great harm to the United States of America." The Times' editor, Bill Keller, said "nobody should think that we made this decision casually, with any animus toward the current administration, or without fully weighing the issues."
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