Posted on 08/18/2005 3:03:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The Washington Post has pulled out of a Pentagon-sponsored Freedom Walk to commemorate 9/11 and support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan because it was deemed too political. Meanwhile, the New York Times, CBS, and other news organizations have joined with the ACLU in demanding that the Pentagon release more sensational photos and videos of Iraqi prisoner abuse. The inevitable result of such disclosure, according to General Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is that Islamic terrorists will exploit the material and kill Americans. Do our media care?
Our media will rally around a reporter who goes to jail to protect her sources. But when the Pentagon tries to keep potential propaganda material from falling into the hands of the enemy, the media are in court with the ACLU against the Pentagon.
The American people have to wise up to the media's tricks. We are involved in a propaganda war that may be more important than what happens on the battlefield. Newsweek's false "Koran in the toilet" story was only one example of how we are losing the media war. It caused violent protests across the Middle East and 17 deaths. The new prisoner abuse images, obtained by an Army soldier who helped uncover the scandal, is not "false" in the Newsweek sense. But it will be exploited to give a false or warped perception of what U.S. military personnel are doing in Iraq. As Myers says in a court document, "It is probable that Al-Qaeda and other groups will seize upon these images and videos as grist for their propaganda mill which will result in, besides violent attacks, increased terrorist recruitment, continued financial support, and exacerbation of tensions between the Iraqi and Afghani populaces and U.S. and Coalition forces."
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"why am I double posting so much today?"
Well heck, your login name gives you away. Your really a double agent.
I pity anyone who will do anything to avoid a square exchange of views.
lol
your the one who keeps coming back and making all of these stupid screen names
In the Land of the Free, reasonable people respect private property. Since you obviously don't, you might be more comfortable in China.
Thanks for the post. Vigilance has a price, but the options are hell.
The Washington Post-- I am going to subscribe just so I can cancel my subscription.
I sense he is a ilegitamate son of the eraser head.
yes he is
LOL. You do not give up, do you. Have you kept track of your aliases?
In the Land of the Free, news media enjoy a degree of freedom unparalleled in most of the free world, let alone the unfree world. In the Land of the Free, the news media's very right to exist has been expressly guaranteed in our basic law. If uncritical patriotism is too much to ask of them (and it probably is), an manner toward that public trust, and the facts, that is more respectful than "fast-food, slick-ass, Persian bazaar" is not.
"yes he is" How perceptive of me. See I knew you where a double agent.
lol
"I'll bet al Qaeda subscribes to the New York Times...."
Maybe they work there already.
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"We have serious problems with the hiring of language specialists. Background investigations are not being conducted properly, and we're giving people top secret clearance who shouldn¹t have it. And we have espionage cases because of it."
—FBI counterintellence veteran John M. Cole
"I mean, it's like a mole house over there."
—Sibel Dinez Edmonds, former FBI translator, referring to the Middle Eastern translation unit at the Washington field office of the FBI
"I personally know of five Muslim translators, and three out of the five refused to do their work. You can't trust them to translate another Muslim. You'd have to have somebody go over it again. Now that's a huge problem, because most of your subjects in terrorism are Muslim."
—FBI counterterrorism veteran John Vincent, Chicago field office.
"It was a big piece of the puzzle."
—Behrooz Sarshar, former FBI linguist who translated an Iranian informant's tip outlining the 9/11 plot four months before the attacks
"I'm convinced there's more information in the FBI" regarding pre-9/11 tips that were buried or ignored."
—former FBI official I.C. Smith
"Is there anything you are aware of in your background which might present a conflict of interest with the duties of the office to which you have been nominated?"
—Sen. Susan Collins, chairwoman of Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
"No, ma'am."
—David Hossein Safavian, nominee for top White House position
"Client Name: Abdurahman Alamoudi. Lobbyist Name: David Safavian."
—page 2 of official lobbying registration papers filed September 18, 2000, with the Secretary of the Senate.
"Every terrorist country was represented at the [nuclear weapons] labs, either as post-doctoral workers and students assigned there, or as visitors. Iran, Syria—you name it, we had them from all of those places."
—Ret. Col. Edward McCallum, former head of the Department of Energy's Office of Safeguards and Security under the Clinton administration.
"[Former Energy Secretary] Hazel [O'Leary] said to me, and this is a quote, 'Boy, don't you understand that the Cold War is over, and all these people are our friends now?' And we were talking about security against terrorists and espionage in the same conversation."
—Col. McCallum
"There is a great deal of concern about Iranians throughout the national lab complex. A lot of directives have been issued concerning this issue."
—senior U.S. counterintelligence official involved with nuclear lab security
bttt
Yep and thanks.
I would have liked to see how our fifth column media would have fared during WWII with their we-are-above-taking-sides attitude? I'm sick of the media libs who think that just because they scribble reports for a living they are excluded from being patriotic Americans. I'm sure Islamo-fascists don't care whether Americans are journalists or not. They just want to kill us. I personally believe that the liberal media is the most harmful element of our society at the moment, because for the past forty years they have been keeping the truth from the American public and agitating for an un-American, quasi-Marxist society.
During WWII the press witheld (often by request from the War Department) all sorts of bad news. We WERE!!! fighting a war. If they had harmed the war effort, I expect they would have been put on trial for treason. Patriotism means many things above all it means NOT HARMING YOUR COUNTRY!!! Understand? You can question your governments decisions and still be patriotic. That means you can disagree with the war and still be a patriot. It does not mean you can stab your country in the back.
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