Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
Where I have a problem is where the government says that the media cannot do something, requires censor rights, or withholds information requested of it. This could lead to bigger fish down the road. They took their first inch...
|
I suppose it all depends on how you look at it. You see it that way; I see it as the military not allowing TV crews to film a military operation that is taking place on a military base.
This next bit is a little far fetched; but what if the government is pulling a "James Bond" type of manouvre, and these 4 soldiers are being listed as killed so they can go on to carry out some covert opperation? And said operation is to capture Osama Bin Laden along with covert US and British forces. Or a different scenario where this leutenant had sensitive information on the enemy; and the Taliban was hunting him down? This becomes a debriefing and a witness relocation effort.
Once again, I don't think this is the case, but my point is that all military activity is not for public eyes; and how can you conduct secret operations when everything but those operations or carried live on TV?