War Dead Out Of Sight & Out Of Mind = BushCo Likes It That Way


	War Dead Out Of Sight & Out Of Mind = BushCo Likes It That Way

BartendingBear

7-10-2008 11:47 PM

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Arlington whistle-blower fired for trying to allow media access to military funerals.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/acc7b1bc-ad39-4324-b0dd-ecee0586826c/FDE65983-3C77-4F30-94B5-2BD3162627AE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/10/arlington-whistleblower-fired/" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/10/arlington-whistleblower-fired/" style="font-size: 11px;">thinkprogress.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/10/arlington-whistleblower-fired/">On April 24, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank reported on the Pentagon’s effort to keep media out of earshot and photo range of the funeral of <A href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen/dates/2008/mar/30/william--g-hall/">Lt. Col. Billy Hall</A>, the 4,011th American to die in Iraq. Milbank wrote that Gina Gray, Arlington’s new director of public affairs, “<A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303244.html?hpid=artslot">pushed vigorously to allow the journalists more access</A> to the service yesterday — but she was apparently shot down by other cemetery officials.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/10/arlington-whistleblower-fired/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/thinkprogress.org/img/19C5700B-EC6E-4BC7-B737-CC233B174E6D" alt="pic1.gif" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/10/arlington-whistleblower-fired/">Today, Milbank reports that <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070902169.html">Gray was demoted and then fired by the Army</A> for trying to investigate the restrictions on the media: </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/10/arlington-whistleblower-fired/">Gray told Milbank that Arlington’s deputy superintendent “has been calling the families of the dead to <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070902169.html">encourage them not to allow media coverage</A> at the funerals — a charge confirmed by a high-ranking official at Arlington, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/10/arlington-whistleblower-fired/">Last month, CBS’s Lara Logan said she believed “the soldiers feel forgotten” because Americans don’t understand the harshness of the Iraq war.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FDE65983-3C77-4F30-94B5-2BD3162627AE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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