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March 14, 2006
Yet Another Example
Add this to the growing list (secret prisons, NSA wiretapping, etc) of secrets the media prints that endagers our soldiers:
During his speech about Iraq on Monday, President Bush criticized a newspaper article that he said revealed sensitive information about the Pentagon's effort to combat improvised explosive devices, the makeshift roadside bombs responsible for thousands of injuries and deaths. White House officials later said that Bush was referring to a Feb. 12 report in the Los Angeles Times.
"Within five days of the publication, using details from that article, the enemy had posted instructions for defeating this new technology on the Internet," Bush said. "We cannot let the enemy know how we're working to defeat them."
The terrorists rely on our media not only for their information, but also for their ability to carry the terrorists lie of American defeat.
Posted by Aaron at March 14, 2006 02:55 PM
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The National News article you link to says that the article in question didn't publish the technical details of the device. So how can "the enemy" have posted instructions for defeating it based upon that article? It also says that the controversy at the pentagon was that despite passing field trials with a 90% effectiveness rating the device had yet to be deployed. So why would "the enemy" bother to post instructions for defeating it at all?
Also neither you nor Bush provides any link to where on the internet the instructions for defeating the JIN are. Must be more of that "faulty" (here read made up) intellegence that Bush loves to use to justify whatever he want's to do at the moment.
And just between you and me, as of right now the MSM has a good deal more credibility than either Bush or this web site.
Posted by: IaintBacchus at March 14, 2006 05:37 PM
It seems like Aaron would rather live in the former Soviet Union.
In that form of government, state secrets stayed secret.
In our constitutional republic, a central principle is that we guarantee a free press. We think our form of government is the best, and will survive because its strengths ot weigh i
Aaron has his doubts.
Posted by: paul at March 15, 2006 01:46 AM
From th epublishing of the Pentagon Papers, to this current article, the mainstream media has shown a callous disregard for national security and the welfare of our American troops in Iraq and elsewhere.
Due consideration for national security is hardly the stuff of the former Soviet Union and preposterous hyperbole such as this is seldom used by people who can argue from the basis of facts.
A decent regard for national security is the least that can be expected from ALL Americans who are forunate enough to be able to live in this country. A lot of what is said on the left would be cause for imprisonment and execution in many, many other nations that the leftwingnuts of the Democratic Party so slavishly admire.
Posted by: Gayle Miller at March 15, 2006 09:57 AM
And incidentally - there is a HUGE difference between freedom and license!
Posted by: Gayle Miller at March 15, 2006 09:59 AM
From the Nixon administration to this current admistration The Republican party has shown a callous disregard for the laws of the United States of America. And has invariably used "National Security" as the excuse to keep it's crimes secret.
The former Soviet Union is an extremely apt parallel to our current regime.
When you use "national security", a perjorative label for progressives,"imprisonment and execution" and an attack on the first amendment in the same paragraph it makes me wonder what nation you slavishly admire. It certainly isn't the Land of the Free.
Incidently, that old "freedom and license" chestnut was popular in the closing days of the Nixon administration, too. It was meaningless then, it's meaningless now.
Sunshine is always the best disinfectant.
You're another one of those who doesn't love their contry, just their political party. And think that's the same thing.
Posted by: IaintBacchus at March 15, 2006 11:22 AM
callous disregard, or following the mandate to keep the government within legal bounds? To believe that al Queda had no idea there was wiretapping is to stretch credulity to the breaking point. If you republicans don't think that democracy requires an inquisitive, free, and questioning press, then you really don't believe in democracy at all. You, of all people, ought to recoil from having a press that, soviet-style, parrots the party line and lays down its ears and eyes. the parallels ought to be obvious: trying to muzzle the press, characterize dissent as disloyalty, even trotting out failed bureaucrats (Franks, Bremer, etc) and pinning medals on them. All we need is a nice wall around the white house, and it's Kremlin, USA. If you don't see it, you're not looking. And if it doesn't frighten you, then whatever you are, you ain't republicans....
Posted by: Dr. Sid at March 16, 2006 11:21 PM
no censorship is needed. the more insane you all become, the less people will read your Main Stream Media.
why is it so hard for you to believe that a news story could actually harm people? you have to blindly object and start into the same long diatribe about freedom.
all I know is that during the RNC in New York City, you all protested against Fox News shouting Shut the Fox Up! Why isn't that censorship?
Posted by: Aaron at March 17, 2006 11:58 AM