Let me make this perfectly clear

In a Boxing Bay article in the Washington Post, Howard Kurtz reports on how US President Bush has summoned newspaper editors to the White House to urge them not to publish stories which he feels are harmful to national security.
The real issue, of course, is the independence of the American press, balanced against its duty to operate within the law. The real, real issue is the danger of the government using its power to censor stories that cause it political embarrassment.

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