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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Jim S who wrote (22659)7/2/2006 12:44:06 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (5) of 541490
 
That is one partisan opinion, Jim. I am not willing to give any single administration unfettered and unaccountable power to make any national security decision they deem right. I don't want to live under a series of four-year dictatorships.

Given the power, administrations would shut down a huge percentage of stories written about them on national security grounds. I come down with Thomas Jefferson and the NYT on this one. I am eternally grateful they don't have that power to use and abuse at their whim. I know you will disagree.

The fact this program was already known in the public realm makes this move that much more vindictive under the guise of protecting us all.

If a hoity-toity liberal President Hillary Clinton tries to act unilaterally and shut down oversight on security grounds, will you feel the same way, and say the Washington Times shouldn't publish what she gets up to behind closed doors?
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