Comment: Re:Fever? (Score 1) 692
Calm down, switch to decaf
NEVAH!
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Calm down, switch to decaf
NEVAH!
fondling my beasts
If your beasts are being fondled by the wrong persons, press charges for cruelty to animals.
Regardless of the politics involved, this information was classified and it was marked as such. It was disclosed illegally and the newspapers (at least NYT) have a legal obligation to not print it.
No they haven't. "...paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the Government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell." (US Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black in the Supreme Court decision re the publication of the Pentagon Papers).
Avoiding possible public embarrasment is not a matter of national security and so is not just cause for hiding behind "security" classifications.
These disclosures appear to have nothing really new in them. Their importance is they provide corroboration for what is already known, in particular they document how much the Coalition governmets are lying. It's similar to the Pentagon Papers publication in that respect, and also in that the validity of these disclosures have been researched.by newspapers/magazines known for reasonable standards of journalistic integrity.
"It's a summons." "What's a summons?" "It means summon's in trouble." -- Rocky and Bullwinkle