I don't believe a word that comes out of Carl Levin's mouth, or any other liberal Democrat politician, all of whom are now deeply invested in America's defeat and humiliation in the middle east.
General FYI:
Rod Dreher is the author of "Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots,"
which is an okay book until Dreher starts in with comments like "Global warming is an undeniable fact" and assorted liberal Chicken Little-esq panicking.
After all, the democratic Truman administration imposed full wartime censorship, during the Asian Civil War that was known as the Korean conflict.
Correspondents could not dispatch reports that would demoralize troops; they could not criticize the allied conduct of the war; they could not mention casualties before they were officially published; they were placed under jurisdiction of the military and were subject to courtmartial.