CB's Sunday Discussion Group

Regular The Carpetbagger Report readers know the folks there post an excellent Sunday discussion series. Here's a snippet from today's offering:

• The Boston Globe reported that President Bush believes he is not obligated to follow the Patriot Act's provisions that require him inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers. The law is clear, but Bush doesn't feel like he has to follow it. The revelations were on the Globe's front page, but were completely ignored by every other national newspaper and went unmentioned on the TV news networks.
  
• The New York Times reported on a pre-war memo that added shocking insights into the president's discussions with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, including the fact that Bush not only decided in January to go to war, but also that he was prepared to provoke a war, through fraud if necessary. The memo was confirmed to be legitimate and ran on the Times' front page. The rest of the major news outlets ignored the stunning revelations.
  
• On Wednesday, congressional Democrats unveiled a major new foreign policy/national security strategy, in a high-profile DC event, after months of preparation. Print and TV media, both of which have told Americans repeatedly that Democrats "have no plan" to deal with national security, decided the detailed new strategy wasn't worth mentioning to the public.