Because some reporters are trustworthy, patriotic and will not publish more of the info than necessary to tell the story, especially to those who would use some aspect of it against us.
A great example of this is kind of co-operation & discretion is when John Scali, the ABC reporter, served as an intermediary between Kennedy and Aleksander Fomin (the KGB chief in the Russian embassy) during the Cuban missile crisis. All during this Scali did the right thing.
You can't say the same thing about many UN officials, most of which have all the discretion of a sieve.
Witness the fact that since Gulf War I ended UN personnel have been leaking inspection visits to Iraq. Only when the US took steps to stop this hemmoraging of information did Iraq expel the inspectors in 1998.
Sound familiar?
Dr. Mordrid
A great example of this is kind of co-operation & discretion is when John Scali, the ABC reporter, served as an intermediary between Kennedy and Aleksander Fomin (the KGB chief in the Russian embassy) during the Cuban missile crisis. All during this Scali did the right thing.
You can't say the same thing about many UN officials, most of which have all the discretion of a sieve.
Witness the fact that since Gulf War I ended UN personnel have been leaking inspection visits to Iraq. Only when the US took steps to stop this hemmoraging of information did Iraq expel the inspectors in 1998.
Sound familiar?
Dr. Mordrid
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