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Spider Jerusalem

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1. He's a journalist? It's his job to ask questions?
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 11:14 PM
Sep 2012

I wasn't aware that there was an obligation on journalists to unquestioningly accept what the government happens to be saying. And it should be pretty fucking obvious that the State Department would LIKE to cover up the security failures that led to the death of a US Ambassador from their reaction to CNN publishing extracts from said ambassador's diary that revealed his concerns over security or the lack thereof (which basically amounted to "how dare you&quot .

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