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The New York Times Warns About the Pentagon Labeling Journalists “Unprivileged Belligerents”
from Liberty Blitzkrieg
This post is a follow up to a piece I published in June titled: New Thousand Page Pentagon War Manual Potentially Lumps Journalists in with “Unprivileged Belligerents.” Here’s an excerpt:
A 1,176 page Pentagon war manual was recently released that hasn’t received the attention it deserves. The book of combat instructions, titled “Department of Defense Law of War Manual,” apparently covers rules of war for all branches of the U.S. military.
One passage in particular is generating controversy, where journalists seem to be thrown into a convoluted and opaque category, in which they could be seen as “unprivileged belligerents” as opposed to civilians. Naturally, this has sparked concern that journalists the U.S. government doesn’t like could be lumped into the “unprivileged belligerents” category and subsequently murdered at will.
Now the New York Times is concerned as well, and rightfully so. In an Op-ed today, the paper explains that:
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Source: http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/2015/08/the-new-york-times-warns-about-the-pentagon-labeling-journalists-unprivileged-belligerents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-new-york-times-warns-about-the-pentagon-labeling-journalists-un
