Brits Clamp Down Too Late

The story of the President's purported suggestion to bomb an Arab television station and the subsequent squelching of the press by the British has been out there since Tuesday. Raw Story has the latest. Tucked away at the bottom is this: According to the Guardian, in reaction to the article in the Mirror, the International Federation of Journalists is demanding complete disclosure with regard to the death of 16 journalists and media staff, including al-Jazeera cameraman Tarek Ayoub, who was killed when the station's Baghdad office was hit during a US air strike in April of 2003. The British government has no First Amendment to worry about and an Official Secrets Act at its disposal (imagine Cheney with that kind of leverage). Problem is, now that the horse has left the barn the attempts to kill the story are fueling even more questions.