Dishonoring Our Soldiers

The Washington Post reported that even though the family of Lt. Col. Billy Hall, one of the highest ranking soldiers to be killed in Iraq, the Pentagon denied all media access. The media, ignoring its First Amendment right to be free to report, was kept away 50 yards from the burial service. This was in keeping with longstanding government policy that goes back to the days of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who denied the press permission to photograph flag draped caskets arriving home.

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