Comments on: The media and national security https://www.yourish.com/2006/06/23/1495 Cutting straight to the point Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:44:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Meryl Yourish https://www.yourish.com/2006/06/23/1495/comment-page-1#comment-10472 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:44:51 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/23/1495#comment-10472 Why, thank you, Doug.

Thus proving that I can write circles around all those conservative lawyers.

The liberal ones, too.

]]> By: Doug Purdie https://www.yourish.com/2006/06/23/1495/comment-page-1#comment-10471 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:32:28 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/23/1495#comment-10471 Well put Ms. Yourish. I saw the same story covered by Captain Ed, who had the same basic comments, but I think yours drive the point home even better.

]]> By: Laurence Simon https://www.yourish.com/2006/06/23/1495/comment-page-1#comment-10446 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:06:48 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/23/1495#comment-10446 Sounds like an eat your own dogfood moment: forcibly move the Jerusalem bureau of the New York Times to Sderot and make them take buses.

]]> By: Sabba Hillel https://www.yourish.com/2006/06/23/1495/comment-page-1#comment-10438 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:26:16 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/23/1495#comment-10438

[…] Because of privacy concerns and the potential for abuse, the government sought the data only for terrorism investigations and prohibited its use for tax fraud, drug trafficking or other inquiries, the officials said.

And the reason that drug trafficking being excluded is a good thing? I would say that drug trafficking, arms deals and other things of that ilk should be included in anti-terrorism investigations.

BTW perhaps the “request” not to publish was part of a Brer Rabbit “don’t throw me into the briar patch” ploy. They probably knew that the Times would publish it anyway. Now they have all the terrorists, drug traffickers and tax evaders looking over their shoulders and getting paranoid. After all, there is probably too much data to actually get everyone so the fear of being caught may make it even more difficult for them. I doubt that the bad guys would believe the US government is actually restricting the operation as the spokesman claims.

It is like spreading the rumor that Al Zarqawi was turned in by a member of his own organization, whether it was true or not. That reminds me of a “mob chaser” film where the good guy is forced to turn loose a low level villain. He publicly shakes the villain’s hand and thanks him for his cooperation in front of “his” lawyer. Soon the mob is after the bad guy and he has to go running to the police for protection.

Sabba Hillel
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