McFreedom

I'm a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal. And they recognized, officially in an editorial, that they are an American paper, and that their duty to America and her soldiers comes above any "duty" to report every scrap of information that they come across. However, I've seen them slipping a couple of times. Most recently in this story, republished on MSNBC.

Some incentives, however, can be pure deceptions. Sgt. Giersdorf says prisoners may be told they could be repatriated if they cooperate, or that their wounded friends might get the best medical care, even though interrogators know that neither would happen.

BRILLIANT! Nice going, WSJ! Let our enemies know we're negotiating in bad faith! It's more important that Americans know what's happening than that the Army be able to figure out where the next target is! American reporters and publishers need to remember that, as comfy as things have seemed at home, we are still at war. And we need all of our operational capabilities. When you publish a story like this, you remove tools. Maybe not on the prisoners we have now - who presumably are not getting morning delivery of the Journal in Guantanamo Bay - but I'm sure this kind of information will make it into Al Qaeda interrogation-resistance training materials in the future. And while I'm at it, what the hell was the instructor thinking, letting a reporter hear him say things like "We expect you to lie a lot?"