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David Lockmiller · **RE: "Lincoln's Surveillance State" Op-Ed NYTimes July 6, 2013**

(07-08-2013 02:01 AM)My Name Is Kate Wrote: Not at all sure if this is helpful, but I googled "The Secretary of War has my authority to exercise his discretion in the matter within mentioned." and came up with this info:

A letter dated January 24, 1862 from Stanton to Lincoln, with the above endorsement by Lincoln on the back of it, on page 118 (Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, State ..., Volume 1):

"In my opinion the success of military operations and the safety of the country require some changes to be made in the Bureau of Ordnance, and perhaps some others, in order to secure more vigor and activity; and I desire to have your sanction for making them.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant, EDWIN M. STANTON"

http://books.google.com/books?id=P3saAAA...22&f=false

And this apparent alteration of the above, on page 190 (The Civil War and the Press, edited by David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, Debra Reddin Van Tuyll) The sources given in the footnotes are Dana, "Recollections", p. 5, Stanton Papers, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., and Thomas and Hyman, "Stanton", p. 152.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Y2KUTBv...27&f=false

Here is a book by David T. Z. Mindich, "Just the Facts: How "Objectivity" Came to Define American Journalism" with the same (mis)information, on page 79, as the above book.

http://books.google.com/books?id=546ccpT...22&f=false

Thank you very much for your very able assistance in this matter. You do very good research work.

I sent an email yesterday to the executive editor of the NY Times on the subject of the false information contained in the 7-6-13 Op-Ed "Lincoln's Surveillance State." I followed that up today with the exact wording of Stanton's original letter. Hopefully, these observations will not be ignored by the NY Times in the interest of covering up their misfeasance to their millions of readers (the paper readership and not necessarily the article).

This subject is too important to be ignored. It almost looks like a National Security Agency "plant" in the most trusted newspaper in the United States in order to "justify" the NSA's misdeeds.

I will make a posting if I get any kind of response from the NY Times.

(07-08-2013 03:56 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Here is another link to Basler's 1953 edition of the Collected Works.

Thank you, Roger, for your very able assistance (as usual).