LA Times Attempts Mea Culpa

Sorry, but as they say, you cannot put the genie back in the bottle, the horse back in the barn, or the aborted baby back in the womb for that matter. Even some of the folks on the left seem to have recognized that this continued betrayal by the MSM outlets of our troops in harms way has gotten very destructive.

Hence the boo hoo we're sorry drivel eminating from the editors that gave these stories the OK to run regardless of the Bush administrations urges not to do so.

Why we ran the bank story - Los Angeles Times: "MANY READERS have been sharply critical of our decision to publish an article Friday on the U.S. Treasury Department's program to secretly monitor worldwide money transfers in an effort to track terrorist financing.

They have sent me sincere and powerful expressions of their disappointment in our newspaper, and they deserve an equally thoughtful and honest response.

"One that you will not recieve in this editorial you can be sure."

The decision to publish this article was not one we took lightly. We considered very seriously the government's assertion that these disclosures could cause difficulties for counterterrorism programs. And we weighed that assertion against the fact that there is an intense and ongoing public debate about whether surveillance programs like these pose a serious threat to civil liberties. " more

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