More government attempts to stifle the press

[UPDATE AND BUMP]

(check the update with the john snow quote at the end...)

how much DOESN'T get reported due to government pressure...? how much DOESN'T get reported because no one has found out about it yet...?

Treasury Department officials spent 90 minutes Thursday meeting with the newspaper's [LA Times] reporters, stressing the legality of the program and urging the paper to not publish a story on the program [the government's inspection of monies flowing in and out of the country], McManus said in a telephone interview.

[...]

Administration officials were concerned that news reports of the program would diminish its effectiveness and could harm overall national security.

"It's a tough call; it was not a decision made lightly," said Doyle McManus, the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau chief. "The key issue here is whether the government has shown that there are adequate safeguards in these programs to give American citizens confidence that information that should remain private is being protected."

get real... there ARE no adequate safeguards... the government is not going to ALLOW adequate safeguards... they will use the information for precisely what they please and leave it to us to guess what those purposes might be...

[UPDATE]

John Snow, the treasury secretary, said yesterday the administration had not intruded unduly on Americans' privacy.

unduly...?? WTF...!! and just precisely who is going to be the arbiter of "UNDULY...?"

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