--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander > > <mailander111@> wrote:
[snip] > > >>>> Books published in English especially will not be enough > > because especially in America there is no academic freedom to write > > and publish anything you like.>>>>> > > > > Damn right there is no freedom to publish anything you like, you > > have to provide evidence for a start, and demonstrate you're > > qualified to assess the evidence, it's called peer-review and it's > > a good way to start working out what is from what isn't. > > That's true in the academic/scholarly field, but > not the case at all in the area of popular > publishing, not to mention on the Web. The CIA's redactions of Valerie Plame's book may be an exception. Although the CIA has a policy to censor ex-CIA member's publications, this is unjustified, politically motivated censorship under false pretenses. --Valerie Plame Wilson's just published book, "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House," is her personal account of helplessly observing her career being shattered as in an out-of-body experience. "Fair Game" is rife with long redacted passages that the CIA censors insisted upon, though the information they blacked out was mostly on the public record. (The publisher, Simon & Schuster recruited investigative reporter Laura Rozen to fill in these blanks in an indispensable afterword.) The omissions only heighten the intrigue.-- ... --Even before the Libby guilty verdict, the CIA begins censoring her manuscript. She is not permitted to write the birth dates of her children. "It was the bureaucratic equivalent of Groundhog Day "--... --"Fair Game" is one of the essential documents of the Bush era, a harrowing personal account of betrayal. The betrayals of the Bush administration have become so numerous that they seem almost casual by now. Yet for Valerie Plame Wilson the personal was more than political. Betraying her was not just another lie, another smear, another Swift-boating. It was a breach of national security.-- ~~ Sidney Blumenthal [Blumenthal's short piece is definitely worth a read.] http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/22/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-valerie-plame-wilson-2/ > > I've yet to read a conspiracy theory that didn't say more about > > the people writing it. > > As I've said here before, I strongly suspect that > there's a great deal of *disinformation* put out > by those with something to hide, for the express > purpose of sidetracking folks like Angela and Bronte > and Bhairitu into pursuing loony conspiracy theories > instead of the real dirt. >
