Muzzling the press... Is this a point of no return...?

things are escalating fast and any half-way rational individual can see where this is taking us...

(from the nro online...)

The New York Times is a recidivist offender in what has become a relentless effort to undermine the intelligence-gathering without which a war against embedded terrorists cannot be won. And it is an unrepentant offender. In a letter published over the weekend, Keller once again defended the newspaper’s editorial decision to run its TFTP story. Without any trace of perceiving the danger inherent in public officials’ compromising of national-security information (a matter that the Times frothed over when it came to the comparative trifle of Valerie Plame’s status as a CIA employee), Keller indicated that the Times would continue revealing such matters whenever it unilaterally decided that doing so was in the public interest.

The president should match this morning’s tough talk with concrete action. Publications such as the Times, which act irresponsibly when given access to secrets on which national security depends, should have their access to government reduced. Their press credentials should be withdrawn. Reporting is surely a right, but press credentials are a privilege. This kind of conduct ought not be rewarded with privileged access.

playing this out logically, with an endless war on terror in which a commander-in-chief-in-perpetuity can decide, in the best traditions of a fascist state, what the citizens of a formerly free republic get to know and what they don't, bushco will have achieved what it has sought all along - unfettered power to do precisely as it pleases... the united states has been in a constitutional crisis since the coup d'etat was formalized by the supreme court on 12 december 2000... we are now rapidly approaching the point of no return...

(thanks to raw story...)

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