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Originally posted by bilmore
This explains, of course, why the NYT gives out secret programs, (not because they're bad or anything, but because they're, you know, secret), and why CNN, for the "news value", airs snuff films of US soldiers being killed on AQ's request,
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I think that has to do with what I think is a misconception (at least at the extremes) of the appropriate role for a journalist and/or the demands imposed by journalistic ethics. The exposure of the international banking surveillance program was a bad call, as I think I said at the time.
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Originally posted by bilmore
and why ya'all get more upset looking at AQ's mail than at Foley's IMs to of-the-age-of-consent pages, and . . .
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Don't do the y'all stuff again, B . . . if we have at least a reasonable belief that they are AQ, I have no problem looking at their mail, though I'd like to have the FISA court involved.
As for Foley, how old are your boys?
S_A_M
