User talk:Watstearns

help me Robert Parry, who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek, claimed in an email to me that he has very good sourcing to the effect that The New York Times had the warrantless NSA surveillance story ready to go BEFORE THE 2004 general Federal election, but sat on it until more than a year later when they were about to be scooped by James Risen's book on the subject. Does this require a footnote, and how should it read? Thanks.