Yesterday ABC News reported that President Bush had authorized the CIA to covertly destabilize Iran. GOP Presidential Candidates Mitt Romney and Tom Tancredo criticized the story. Both candidates claim that reporting this story risks American lives.
ABC News responded saying “In the six days since we first contacted the CIA and the White House, at no time did they indicate that broadcasting this report would jeopardize lives or operations on the ground.”
With this kind of agitation against Iran and the problems in Iraq, I think it is essential that Americans know what is really going on. A free society can’t function with a highly secretive government. On the other hand, the candidates have a point…covert operations are not covert anymore once they’ve been released to the press. But the job of the press is to report what’s going on, it is the job of the CIA to keep their operations secret.
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