When I served as "Intelligence Operations Officer" of our 4th US Armored Division in Goeppingen, Germany, and later, when I served as "Advisory Team Leader" in Vietnam, I always thought of our country as the "good guys", and our adversaries as "evil doers". Now, I am not so certain about my judgment: Bill Keller, an editor of the New York Times has recently published an article titled: "Dealing With Assange and the WikiLeaks Secrets." In that article, the author wrote how the newspaper was working with secret cables. From the details of that article, it almost seems as though Russia, and NOT our United States is now the Real Stronghold of freedom of speech. Keller wrote: "Because of the range of the material and the very nature of diplomacy, the embassy cables were bound to be more explosive than the War Logs. Dean Baquet, our Washington bureau chief, gave the White House an early warning on Nov.19. The following Tuesday, two days before Thanksgiving, Baquet and two other colleagues were invited to a windowless room at the State Department, where they encountered an unsmiling crowd. Representatives from the White House, the State Department, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the FBI, and the Pentagon gathered around a conference table. Others, who never identified themselves, lined the walls. A solitary note-taker tapped away on a computer."
Please click on my headline to read the rest of this story about whom our "free newspapers" are working for!
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