The New York Times goes overboard in an editorial today. After noting that Attorney General Gonzales told the Senate in 2005 that, "there has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse", the paper notes that he, in fact had been sent by the FBI a report stating that "it had obtained personal information it should not have".Did inadvertently receiving this personal information rise to the level of "civil liberties abuse"?If anything, the Times should compliment the FBI and the DOJ for recognizing an error and dealing with the problem. There is no evidence that Gonzales actually read the report before he testified to the Senate. It may well have been in his "in-box" after just a few days of having been sent the report.Further, the Times writes:"Mr. Bush's claim of executive privilege is baseless (note that the Times does not accord the man the title of "President Bush"). Executive privilege,...(Read Full Post)