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My takeaway is this: When the secret prisons were exposed by the Washington Post (for which it won a Pulitzer Prize), the usual cries of "traitor" came from the administration. This was, after all, was secret information, and the Post's reporting hurt our national interests in some unspecified manner.
Now, with mid-terms looming, and the Repubs in trouble, the administration believes it is good politics to discuss the secret prisons, so it for the first time admits their existence (yes, for the first time, singpilot).
Once again, the Bush admin plays politics with the classification system, both classifying and "de-classifying" for reasons having nothing to do with national security, and everything to do with politics.
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We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
We will stay the course *** We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. [4/16/04]
And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been “stay the course” [10/21/06]
--- George W. Bush, President of the United States of America
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