[Mb-civic] Re: White House Leak

[Rhaerther at aol.com]

I would agree with Mr. Wolf, this is not a free press issue as not only has  
the Intelligence Protection Identities Act been violated, this administration  
has been caught many times paying objective members of the "liberal" media to 
 schill the administration policies, a violation of the regulations regarding 
 propaganda.  The reporters wanted the byline, common sense and ethics  
should have set off little personal warning bells that this could  compromise an 
agent, the agent's life, and all those associated with the agent  and lead to 
legal action in the form of prosecution.  The reporters went  for the glory, now 
they are paying for their lack of judgement.  I'm  wondering if an argument 
could be made that the media actions of the Shrub  ad(vertising)ministration 
may actually weaken a true free press defense when  needed?
 
Richard Haerther

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