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Originally posted by Joeaksa
Cannot disagree with your comments but when and where is it going to stop? What training do the editors at the NYT have in working withclassified material? Doubt that they have any sort of clearance and most likely it has two motives, selling newspapers and getting their cronies elected into office.
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As a counterweight against incumbents who classify to keep their cronies in office, no problem.
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How do they know that what they are disclosing is not a very secret program whose disclosure could cost lives and ruin years of work? The problem is that they DO NOT know, they just want to sell newspapers and do not care about the damage they cause.
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Because those are obvious things, even enlisted scum can tell that. (Note, I was enlisted for 16 years)
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The problem is that the NYT is not the organization that should be putting ANY classified material out to the public.
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On the contrary, they've been nearly derelict in not publishing a whole lot more. When government tells you not to publish, you should immediately investigate why, and then publish when it's obvious that it's only CYA crap.
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They have already published information that has screwed the country one time (the SWIFT program in Europe) and we continue to allow them and other newspapers to publish as they please.
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That freedom of the press is SO inconvenient, isn't it. If a program needs secrecy, then we don't need that program.
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It has to stop somewhere and hope that it does and fast, for the entire country's sake.
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Far better to ere on the side of revealing secrets, than to let sleazy government thugs have their way with us.