This Pentagon choice won’t ‘piss off the media’... the MSM likes the heavy hand of thuggery resting on them.
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Some in the press are fighting back...
Reason.com was order to hand over the names of people who made comments on their site....
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/25/how-the-feds-asked-me-to-rat-out-commenters.html
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“Reason.com, the website I edit, was recently commanded by the feds to provide information on a few commenters and not discuss it. Here’s why we’re speaking out.” - more at link..
So, maybe the government did indeed order Amazon, eBay, Walmart, etc. to stop selling the Confederate flag. Odd how all those companies decided to enact a ban at the same time.