New York Times Misrepresents Testimony Of Judges

Here’s the New York Times story covering the testimony of FISA judges before Congress, which I posted about yesterday.

Judges on Secretive Panel Speak Out on Spy Program
WASHINGTON, March 28 — Five former judges on the nation’s most secretive court, including one who resigned in apparent protest over President Bush’s domestic eavesdropping, urged Congress on Tuesday to give the court a formal role in overseeing the surveillance program.
In a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the secretive court, known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, several former judges who served on the panel also voiced skepticism at a Senate hearing about the president’s constitutional authority to order wiretapping on Americans without a court order. They also suggested that the program could imperil criminal prosecutions that grew out of the wiretaps.

Skepticism? That’s certainly not how the Washington Times described it, nor is it in keeping with the actual transcript of the proceeding which has now been made public: