NYT Front|Back:Small Colleges' Male Lure vs. Bush's Secret Program

FRONT:

Small Colleges, Short of Men, Embrace Football
The World Cup finale on the front page? Sure. All right. But an adjacent story about how some female-dominated colleges are attracting male students by adding football teams?

Red card.

Intro:

Kevin Bosworth's football career here at Shenandoah University amounted to all of 10 plays, across four years otherwise spent watching from the sidelines. No matter. A reedy tight end, Mr. Bosworth wanted to play football, and the college was starting a team.

BACK (page A11):

Congressman Says Program Was Disclosed by Informant
On Saturday, The Times broke the story of a whistleblower informing the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee of a secret "significant" intelligence program being run by the Bush administration. The disclosure came via a letter to Bush written on May 18 by Representative Peter Hoekstra (R-Michigan). The committee was not briefed by the administration until Hoekstra push pressure on Bush to do so. Hoekstra believes the administration's actions could be a "violation of law." On Sunday, he went on TV to further express his concern. Of the administration's failure to inform Congress, Hoekstra said, "I take it very, very seriously."

Here's the really scary part. Until now, Hoekstra has been a loyal foot soldier for Bushco. Prewar intelligence gathering. Torture. NSA spying. Hoekstra gave it all a gold star. He even joined the conservative chorus railing against leakers and the media.

So imagine the abuse of power it would take for this man to say, "Whoa. Now you've gone too far."

Because, ladies and gentlemen, that's one thing we still do not - and may never - know (for national security reasons, of course): the secret Bush administration program that compelled a lapdog like Hoekstra to do the right thing.

Excerpt:

Mr. Hoekstra and other officials would not discuss the nature of the undisclosed intelligence programs. But officials have said he was not referring to the National Security Agency's wiretapping operation or to the Treasury Department's bank monitoring program, both of which he was informed about. Mr. Hoekstra made clear on Sunday that he was particularly troubled by the failure to notify the Intelligence Committee of one particular major program.

"We can't be briefed on every little thing that they are doing," Mr. Hoekstra said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday." "But in this case, there was at least one major — what I consider significant — activity that we had not been briefed on that we have now been briefed on. And I want to set the standard there, that it is not optional for this president or any president or people in the executive community not to keep the intelligence committees fully informed of what they are doing."

Comments

[Dr. Feel Good]

Not to mention, I would not need football to lure me to a mostly female college.