The story of John Young's interview with ABCNews, for a story they packaged as "Web information that helps terrorists." Because of my few interactions with network affiliates, I wish I'd been able to give Mr. Young a heads-up on how these people can operate.
"'I know there are a lot of people in the government who find him troublesome, said former White House terrorism adviser Richard Clarke, now an ABC News consultant. 'There is a real tension here between the public's right to know and civil liberties, on the one hand, and security on the other.'"
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."