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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-30-06 12:18 PM
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WaTimes gleefully confesses self-censorship
Inside the Beltway received an e-mail yesterday from a high-ranking Pentagon official who wished to comment on our item about congressmen being required by law to read the U.S. Constitution at least once every year.
We'd like to tell you what he said about lawmakers and what they should be reading, but given the bold-faced warning at the bottom of the official's letter — and the uproar this week by the Bush administration over the New York Times' publishing a report on a classified national security program — we'd better not take any chances:
"This e-mail is from the Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense, and may contain information that is 'Law Enforcement Sensitive' or 'For Official Use Only' or otherwise subject to the Privacy Act and/or legal and or other privileges that restrict release without appropriate legal authority."

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060629-115816-3308r_page2.htm

I could tell you, but then they'd have to kill me?

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