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Slack.com slash DHQ. So, Scandal is not an exact science, but on a scale of nothing burger

to worse than watergate the information in the House Intelligence Committee fives a memo

comes in at about a seven. We'll talk about that later, but for now, so face it to say,

if this sort of thing had gone under President Trump or even under President George W. Bush,

the New York Times, a former newspaper, would have announced the news in front page headlines

so large it would have taken two strong men just to carry the letters to the press room.

An enormous collection of times reportage on the subject with a black cover and some

title like The Path to Tyranny would have been on the bookstore shelves within the month.

Instead, America's new centers from 42nd Street in Manhattan, all the way to 57th Street

in Manhattan, did everything within their power to suppress, taint, and minimize the impact

of the memo even before they knew what was in it. Some of us who still go to the movies

just sat through Stephen Spielberg's post, a two-hour left-wing talking point about how

brave the Washington Post was when it defied President Nixon's concerns over national

security in order to expose government malfeasance by publishing the Pentagon papers.

Yet now news outlets plead to keep secrets, to keep secrets, in the name of national security

and warn us in the satirical words of a headline in the onion that the memo could undermine

our faith in massive, unaccountable government secret agencies.

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