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Politics : The Iraq War And Beyond -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (2993)	2/23/2004 6:37:54 PM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9018

A lot of secret or classified info for the nation were disclosed while a lot of them need to be classified depending on the nation's best interests. This, of course, is the normal principle to follow. But when you are seeing some civilian secretly and continuously tapped the White House telephone line of the President of the United States, the behavior was perfectly OK and the person even became a heroine (see Linda Tripp and Clinton case, for example). In that case, the US president's phone line had carried no national secrete whatsoever. While for the huge 9/11 terror attacks on America, the authority try hard to keep even the info like which traders did the unusually large short sell on the financial markets a secrete because of the "national security" reason. Can you smell something? Well, secrete or not, it all depends. Might makes right, that's the bottom line.