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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
As I stated before, the situation is far more complex than the information that is released for public consumption. To reduce the situation to sound bytes by either source of information is silly. As a matter of fact, in my not so educated opinion about the whole deal, our insistence on knowing the "truth" publically probably causes as much damage as the enemy.
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"Knowing the truth causes...damage"?????
I don't think so.
Jefferson stated that government "derives its just powers from the consent of the (informed) governed."
Withholding information, whether it's "embedding" reporters, or putting "plants" in amongst the questioners at press conferences, or not allowing the reporting of caskets coming in to Dover, or denying access to records under "freedom of information" makes a mockery of law and the populace's right to know (be informed).
Therein the "damage".