Media including Fox News overwhelmingly reject Hegseth press policy

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• a2z

  October 15 edited October 15

  even the rightwing rags (but one) somehow realized there were signing up to unlimited liability for public unclassified information.
  
  just make it simple and invite them all to hegseth chat groups.
• DrVenture

  October 15

  Censorship, propaganda & intimidation.
  
  
• hank

  October 15 edited October 15

  Hegseth doesn’t want someone leaking our (secret) plans to attack Venezuela.
• Old_Joe

  October 15

  @hank- See you in Somalia...
• hank

  October 15 edited October 15

  I thought of you tonight OJ when I heard Trump justify using Navy missile firing ships to blow up Venezuelan boats (instead of using the CG to board & search first) because our USCG boats are ”too slow” … Never heard that one before,
  
  Every day’s a new adventure.
  
• Mark

  October 15

  Just like everything else in his life he prefers that it be quick, illegal, wrong and dirty.
• Old_Joe

  October 15 edited October 15

  Hell, if he thinks that they're slow now, he couldn't begin to imagine how slow they were when I was in. Almost every large Coast Guard ship that we had was a very used hand-me-down from the Navy (typically destroyer escorts), with a quick fix-up and nice paint job.
  
  I have very mixed feelings on taking out those small fast boats- they're basically good-sized speedboats with huge dual outboard engines- that type of boat is used for one thing, and it certainly ain't fishing.
  
  I realize that it's pushing the envelope legally, but I can understand the concept of those boats being used by interests who, in a practical sense, have declared "war" on US citizens and interests.
  
• a2z

  October 16

  
  so the solution seems to be switch to mega-yachts on the off chance trump worries he may be bombing a gop donor \ offshore co-investor ?
• Crash

  October 16

  Glad the media is standing up.
• Derf

  October 16

  Good 1 @a2z !!!! Or a slow fishing boat of one kind or another?
• hank

  October 17 edited October 17

  Old_Joe said:

  “I have very mixed feelings on taking out those small fast boats- they're basically good-sized speedboats with huge dual outboard engines- that type of boat is used for one thing, and it certainly ain't fishing. I realize that it's pushing the envelope legally, but I can understand the concept of those boats being used by interests who, in a practical sense, have declared "war" on US citizens and interests.”
  

  I never thought of that. Umm … As a people we’ve become so politically stratified (right leaning / left leaning) it’s hard to appraise any act by the “opposition” in any light resembling objectivity. I blame the internet (along with some cable outlets) for that. This is the only discussion platform I frequent. But I hear it’s really bad on some others. I wish everyone could take a deep breath and attempt to understand the other’s point of view. Not agree with it. But listen.
  
  Dickens perhaps foresaw our predicament in 1859 when he wrote the opening lines to A Tale of Two Cities. He was of course referring to London and Paris at the time, but might well have been referring to our present day.
  
  “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
  
  BTW - Those are, for some reason, very easy lines to memorize, were someone so inclined. Doesn’t get any better IMHO. Old Joe could no doubt impress the Mrs by reciting them.
• Mark

  October 17

  All good points @hank. Bravo.