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The article explains that some members of Congress (the usual suspects - Schumer, Leahy, Specter, et al.) who are pushing for a federal "shield law" will effectively dismantle the whole classification system of top-secret, secret, and confidential, without putting any safeguards in their place. With that crew and the N.Y.Times, why should foreign enemies waste their money on espionage?
1 posted on 02/13/2007 8:38:43 AM PST by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

What would that mean for all 'black' projects, including Area 51?


2 posted on 02/13/2007 8:41:40 AM PST by wastedyears ( "Gun control is hitting your target accurately." - Richard Marcinko)
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Why hasn't one of these leakers been arrested and charged as of yet?

No one seems to really care, it's business as ususal.

4 posted on 02/13/2007 8:51:22 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: T.L.Sink

Journalists are notoriously biased and subject to human error. They aren't infallible and shouldn't be above the law.


5 posted on 02/13/2007 8:53:10 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: T.L.Sink; wagglebee; KC_for_Freedom; the invisib1e hand; Melas; auboy; T Lady; Richard Poe; ...
Bookmarked.This entire article is dead on, and important.

Read it all. I picked this gem:

The claim that [Judith] Miller, or any other journalist in similar circumstances, had no choice but to go jail is, therefore, specious in the extreme, a rationalization put forward by spokesmen of the establishment media in their own effort to gain and maintain their privileges and powers. These they require not in order to report the news but rather, it would appear, to ratify their self-proclaimed position as the arbiters and shapers of American opinion. In the performance of that role, they fancy, their exalted position should place them beyond the reach of American law.
I would add that the broadcast licenses which empower CBS et al to report in a way that you and I are forbidden to are of a piece with the special priviledge after which journalists lust in their pleading for "shield laws" for reporters.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate


6 posted on 02/13/2007 12:35:18 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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