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Loose Lips
By Linda Chavez
June 22, 2006
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Suskind has no way of assessing whether he is aiding the enemy with such information. Of course he wouldn't intentionally harm U.S. interests, but the kind of detail he supplies can be important pieces in the puzzle for anyone trying to figure out how much we know and how we know it. No doubt he believes the public's right to know outweighs whatever cost is entailed in revealing the government's secrets.
The problem is not so much what Suskind has written but why those in positions of national trust talked to him in the first place. We've seen it before in the New York Times reports on the National Security Agency's data-mining effort and the Washington Post's stories on the CIA's overseas prisons. Loose lips may yet sink our ship of state.
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Linda Chavez is the author of the new book, "Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics."
COPYRIGHT 2006 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
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