White House censors op-ed piece in NYT
Huffington Post reports that the New York Times ran an op-ed piece by former CIA official Flynt Leverett yesterday that had been "thoroughly redacted by the White House." The article had been an attempt to criticize the Bush administration's policies towards Iran, and contained no classified information.
The FULL text made a brief appearance on The Washington Note but was taken down and replaced with the White House edited version shortly thereafter.
Nice...so the Bush administration is now censoring information given to the media that it doesn't like. Well, I can't say I'm surprised, this administration has had NO regard for the Constitution what so ever, so why start now?
5 comments:
You're not too bright, are ya? This isn't censorship, nor does it in any way implicate the Constitution.
The person commenting above may have been a bit too quick. The Merriam-Webster site defines 'censor' as "to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable" If the stark black lines in the opinion pages of a major American newspaper do not constitute censorship, we are indeed living in an Orwellian state.
This White House (and too many past Presidents) have thrust politics into the realm of censorship utilizing national security concerns.
Congress needs to legislate the creation of a bi-partisan panel that will review whether something should be released into the public domain so that politics can be minimized and our "real" national security issues are safeguarded.
Buzz...Buzz...
"You're not too bright, are ya? This isn't censorship, nor does it in any way implicate the Constitution. "
I think you better recheck your definition of censorship. As far as the Constitution, I think you better reread that too.
Geeze Terry, you sure do think you know everything, how annoying.
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