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To Bob Woodward, it was the modern-day equivalent of the Pentagon Papers. But to Obama administration officials, the classified assessment of the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, if disclosed by The Washington Post, represented a potential threat to the safety of U.S. troops.
The result was that The Post agreed to a one-day delay in publicizing the report by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, and that the paper's top editor engaged in a...
Woodward said in an interview Tuesday that four White House and administration officials strongly objected to the publication of the full report, telling him, Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli and a Post lawyer in a conference call on Saturday that "if we publish it as is, it could endanger the lives of troops."
After the Pentagon meeting Sunday with Brauchli, Woodward and Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran, administration officials "did a wholesale declassification of 98 percent" of the document, Woodward said, while The Post agreed to withhold certain operational details. That, Woodward said, "made it easier" for the newspaper to proceed with publication without risking criticism for disclosing classified information.
So, if I am reading this correctly, as long as the President/his administration approves of WHAT information is to be released....then the First Amendment may continue to exist.
Yes, that is probably a rather harsh statement to make considering the safety of our great nation would be in jeopardy if the FULL TRUTH were actually told.
This is just another shining example in my opinion of the total control of the media by the White House.
Once again, anything and everything can be done so long as it's in the name of "national security".
Originally posted by lpowell0627
Woodward said in an interview Tuesday that four White House and administration officials strongly objected to the publication of the full report, telling him, Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli and a Post lawyer in a conference call on Saturday that "if we publish it as is, it could endanger the lives of troops."
After the Pentagon meeting Sunday with Brauchli, Woodward and Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran, administration officials "did a wholesale declassification of 98 percent" of the document, Woodward said, while The Post agreed to withhold certain operational details. That, Woodward said, "made it easier" for the newspaper to proceed with publication without risking criticism for disclosing classified information.
So, if I am reading this correctly, as long as the President/his administration approves of WHAT information is to be released....then the First Amendment may continue to exist.
Yes, that is probably a rather harsh statement to make considering the safety of our great nation would be in jeopardy if the FULL TRUTH were actually told.
This is just another shining example in my opinion of the total control of the media by the White House.
Originally posted by KSPigpen
At least all of the voices aren't the same all of the time when they're all telling us the same pasteurized crap.