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  • NYT reveals name of KSM’s chief interrogator — against CIA’s wishes

    06/21/2008 6:59:54 PM PDT · by MrCFdovnh · 33 replies · 246+ views
    Hot Air ^ | 06-21-2008 | Allahpundit
    Too bad, because an otherwise fascinating story about the scramble to build a counterterror apparatus after 9/11, the merits of coercive vs. non-coercive interrogation, and the stings that nailed Abu Zubaydah and KSM is going to be submerged in a debate over their decision to publish the lead interrogator’s name against his wishes and those of CIA chief Michael Hayden. Here’s the obligatory editor’s note justifying the decision. Quote: "After discussion with agency officials and a lawyer for [the interrogrator], the newspaper declined the request, noting that [the interrogator] had never worked under cover and that others involved in the...
  • THE NEW 'LEPERS': THE TIMES' TROUBLE WITH VETS (NewYorkSlimes at it again)

    01/18/2008 1:08:14 PM PST · by mojito · 54+ views
    New York Post ^ | 1/18/2008 | Ralph Peterson
    ...The purpose of Sunday's instantly notorious feature "alerting" the American people that our Iraq and Afghanistan vets are all potential murderers when they move in next door was to mark those defenders of freedom as "unclean" - as the new lepers who can't be trusted amid uninfected Americans.... The hard left's hatred of our military has deteriorated from a political stance into a pathology: The only good soldier is a dead soldier who can be wielded as a statistic (out of context again). Or a deserter who complains bitterly that he didn't join the Army to fight . . ....