Friday, March 28, 2008 - Posts
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According to the New York Times , the Treasury Department is pushing a plan which broaden and deepen the reach of the federal government into America's financial markets: According to a summary provided by the administration, the plan would consolidate Read More...
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So it just comes down to different judgments about the proper weighing of the costs and benefits of publication. Marty thinks that the legal arguments are bad (high benefit from publication) and suspects that the secrecy of the NSA program was not important Read More...
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Wow, Eric, you packed a lot into that provocative opening post , and led me to read Lichtblau's how-the-media-sausage-is made story I confess I might not otherwise have read, given the day job. Call me a cynic, but I've invariably come away from such Read More...
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Eric asks a reasonable but ultimatelyt thetrical quesiton of me: do I think natinal security concerns should wiegh in the balance concerning publication? Of course national security concerns should be part of the calculus as to whether to publish. Just Read More...
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Guilty as charged . Yes, careful lawyer that I try to be, I did include a qualification to suggest that maybe there could, one day, be some case in which a newspaper should refrain from publishing a story about rampant illegality, affecting the privacy Read More...
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Marty puts the case succinctly: Has there ever been any case in which a serious American newspaper declined to publish information it had about felonious conduct at the highest levels of government? And if that meant the cessation of the program, so be Read More...
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