Soldier's Family Set in Motion Chain of Events on Disclosure [Hackworth involved in CBS photos]

NY Times ^ | 5/8/04 | James Dao and Eric Lichtblau

[wasp69]

Did you ask them to pull it because of what I said, or because of what you were thinking?

I asked that the admin moderator do something about your actions, your posts, and what it implied. You were way over the line.

[cricket]

"We heard about someone who was outraged about it and thought that the public should know about it."

They certainly did not treat those breakthrough stories on Clinton the same way. . .seems 'back then'; their own investigations were a first requirement; the second was as per their agenda. . .they did not need to go there.

We can know that those at Sixty Minutes and all their media peers; are estatic over this world-wide sliming of our Military; up front and personal. And as much to the point; the damage inflicted on a President and his Administration.

[cricket]

"I hope Fredericks' family is happy. Not only have they stained the reputation of the U.S. military with the release of these photos, and put our troops at risk, they have virtually guaranteed a harsher sentence for Fredericks than he would have gotten if this hadn't become an international incident."

This is surely the case.

Think this family may just find there are worse things in life than being 'poor dirt-people'.

And think Hack will surely regret his role in this as well. The stupidity here is hardly limited to these soldiers who took part in this.