| Richard Clark ... goat or the man? [message #74025] |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Registered: November 2003
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Hey Crimson:
You know the story on that background transcript, right?
Reporters get to go to background briefings, which are STRICTLY off the record. There they get to meet the people and know the story, but are not allowed to quote it or anything. This way, people feel like they can say different things off the record. Now, FOX goes, records the briefing, and then POSTS A TRANSCRIPT ON THEIR FRONT PAGE OF THE INTERNET SAYING WHAT IT IS!
It's kind of hard to talk bad about Clarke when he's been THE counterterrorism guy for 4 presidencies. Cheney said that Clarke had never really been in the loop: Well, Clarke actually was the loop.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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