Bias of Post Once More Blatantly Evident

Cold War Missiles Target of Blackout
Documents Altered To Conceal Data

By Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 21, 2006; Page A01

The Bush administration has begun designating as secret some information that the government long provided even to its enemy the former Soviet Union: the numbers of strategic weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.

The Pentagon and the Department of Energy are treating as national security secrets the historical totals of Minuteman, Titan II and other missiles, blacking out the information on previously public documents, according to a new report by the National Security Archive. The archive is a nonprofit research library housed at George Washington University.

"It would be difficult to find more dramatic examples of unjustifiable secrecy than these decisions to classify the numbers of U.S. strategic weapons," wrote William Burr, a senior analyst at the archive who compiled the report. " . . . The Pentagon is now trying to keep secret numbers of strategic weapons that have never been classified before."

The report comes at a time when the Bush administration's penchant for government secrecy has troubled researchers and bred controversy over agency efforts to withhold even seemingly innocuous information. The National Archives was embroiled in scandal during the spring when it was disclosed that the agency had for years kept secret a reclassification program under which the CIA, the Air Force and other agencies removed thousands of records from public shelves.

Let's get this straight, some mid-level manager in the Pentagon decides to redact traditionally released data and this idiot Chritopher Lee can't help but blame President Bush. Of course he never comes out and says it, the when his first written words are "The Bush Administration..." it leaves little doubt where his sympathies lie.

With Liberals, objectivity is the least of their concerns, poor journalism has become a synonym for MSM reporting. The Post is demonstrably one of the two or three most biased news outlets in America. They continue to wonder why they are going broke. They lash out at bloggers, blaming the "altenative media" for their irreversable decline while blythely ignoring the most fundamental priciples of good journalism. The Washington Post will shortly be relegated to the status of a privately funded (by George Soros or someone like him) propaganda rag. Their circulation continues to fall as the leave Americans farther and farther behind as they continue their journey to the extreme Left.

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