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Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00 AM

How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words

"We develop a core group from within our media analyst list of those that we can count on to carry our water. They become the key go to guys for the networks and it begins to weed out the less reliably friendly analysts by the networks themselves."

Glenn Greenwald

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Sunday, May 11, 2008 04:18 PM

Agreed

1. "The gov't is lying to us about marijuana." [Correct.]

then jumped to this conclusion --

2. "Therefore, the gov't is lying to us about all drugs." [WRONG.]

I see that same oversimplification, that same jumping-to-erroneous conclusion happening today.

Where you and I disagree is that, let's call it hard drug abuse, is really a victimless crime that should be treated asa public health issue, not a criminal justice issue BECAUSE it does affect the lives of others besides the addict. But that does not make them victims of the victimless "crime" that is only a crime by dint of the overuse of the criminal sanction.

—L.W.M. Read L.W.M.'s other letters

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