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To: Road Walker who wrote (265130)	12/18/2005 8:37:28 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1575431

lol, Risen's book mentioned no where in the article.... And to think you pay for this garbage..... simonsays.com The American voter is smarter than the average Times sucker...

To: Road Walker who wrote (265130)	12/18/2005 9:10:15 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575431

"worried that the program might come under scrutiny by Congressional or criminal investigators if Senator John Kerry, the Democratic nominee, was elected President." Do you think? Nah...

To: Road Walker who wrote (265130)	12/19/2005 1:22:01 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575431

But what if the Times had published its story before the election? And what other stories have been held up due to Adminsitration cajoling, pressure, threats and intimidation? The question of how this Administration threatens the workings of a free press, a cornerstone of democracy, remains a central one. Every week brings new evidence of White House attempts to delegitimize the press's role as a watchdog of government abuse, an effective counter to virtually unchecked executive power. Last month, for example, the Washington Post published Dana Priest's extraordinary report about the CIA's network of prisons in Eastern Europe for suspected terrorists. Priest's reporting helped push passage of a ban on the metastasizing use of torture. But, as with the New York Times, the Post acknowledged that it had acceded to government requests to withhold the names of the countries in which the black site prisons exist. How many other cases are there of news outlets choosing to honor government requests for secrecy over the journalistic duty of informing the public about government abuse and wrongdoing? Good! Its about time we got to the heart of the matter. The mainstream press.......the press we all rely on to insure that democracy is working.....is not free. Assuming they were once free, its disgusting how they have operated the past 5 years. Hopefully, that is changing........they need to be more like the British press. Its good that Feingold is telling it how it is. ted