I think the link below may have been already posted. I just thought her response to the person in Philliy was rich.
Washington Post intelligence reporter Dana Priest was online Thursday, Nov. 3, at 12:30 p.m. ET to discuss the latest developments in national security and intelligence.
CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons. (Washington Post, Nov. 2, 2005)
Today's Live Discussions
Dana Priest covers intelligence and wrote " The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace With America's Military " (W.W. Norton). The book chronicles the increasing frequency with which the military is called upon to solve political and economic problems.
The transcript follows.
Philadelphia, Pa.: Your and your editor's explanation of the reason for keeping the European locations secret is terribly troubling.
In essence it seems as though you are concerned that the embarrassment and political consequences that exposure would likely cause might lead to hesitation to be involved with such schemes in the future.
How is your editor's stance and your failure to criticism square with journalistic ethics?
Dana Priest: Political fallout was not a consideration in my mind.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/10/28/DI2005102800907.html
Here's a blurb on Ms. Priest's husband:
William Goodfellow is the executive director of the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC. The Center sponsors scholarly research and leads activist campaigns to advance policies based on multilateralism, demilitarization, democracy, and respect for human rights. Prior to helping establish the Center for International Policy in 1975, Goodfellow was an associate with the Indochina Resource Center, an anti-war think tank.