July 01, 2006

Jawa Report Hits One Out Of The Park!

Rusty has posted what Keller and Baquet really wanted to say in the joint Treason Times East/Treason Times West piece that they published justifying the exposure of vital national security information to our nation's enemies.

Here's a taste.

How do we, as editors, reconcile the obligation to inform with the instinct to protect?

Sometimes the judgments are easy. Our reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, take great care not to divulge operational intelligence in their news reports. Especially the ones that are working with insurgents, like Bilal Hussein. No way we'd ever reveal his contacts or al Qaeda's secrets!

Often the judgments are painfully hard. Just kidding. It's pretty easy. If we believe the secrets we reveal will hurt Bushitler and co., then we reveal them. If they will help, we don't. In case of a tie--one thinking it will help Bush, the other thinking it will hurt--we do rock paper scissors.

Believe me -- this essential reading, well-worth your time.

And I don't doubt that the next DDOS directed at that essential-read blog will come from the jihadis-sympathizers at the New York Times or LA Times, instead of Turkish Islamofascists. After all, they are all on the same team.

Posted by: Greg at 01:40 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 I'm trying to understand how making up something that someone didn't say, rather than responding to what they actually did say, counts as "hitting one out of park" and "essential reading." Seems kind of juvenile - and you have to wonder why someone would choose that over actually responding to what was said. Sounds like perhaps they couldn't figure out how to refute it?

How about if someone made a mock-up of your site with posts that read, "I want to kill everyone who disagrees with me!" Would that be an insightful way to disagree with you?

Posted by: John at Sat Jul 1 15:43:56 2006 (YId1A)

2 You aren't clear on the concept of "satire", are you my friend?

Or do you only have a sense of humor when the target is a political enemy?

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Sat Jul 1 16:20:48 2006 (llOKb)

3 Satire works when it takes something real and changes it just enough to point out its flaws. And yes, I love satire of the left as well as the right - blogs that feed liberal hysteria like Daily Kos and Americablog are great targets for it (although they read like satires of themselves much of the time, which makes a humorists job kind of challenging).

If that piece was satire, I'd say it's a failure, and not because I don't agree with the viewoint, but because it's wholesale invention. Don't assume partisanship as the first motivation when someone disagrees with you; I tend to find a lot of people with whom I share some views pretty laughable.

Posted by: John at Sat Jul 1 23:50:32 2006 (YId1A)

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