Truth.

Glenn Greenwald looks at Bushco's latest round of "Look! Shiny thing!"...

Claims that The New York Times (and other newspapers which published stories about this program) disclosed information about banking surveillance which could help terrorists are factually false. Nobody can identify a single sentence in any of these stories which disclosed meaningful information that terrorists would not have previously known or which they could use to evade detection. To the extent that it is (ludicrously) asserted that the more they are reminded of such surveillance, the more they will remember it, nobody has spoken more openly and publicly about the Government's anti-terrorism surveillance programs than a campaigning George Bush.

The Times hasn't disclosed anything new, and the response isn't new either. It's just more of the same old politics of fear, hate and lies. That's all they have left. That's why…