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There appear to be no limits to the Bush administration 's pernicious assault on our democracy. As I 'm writing this there is breaking news from reliable mainstream sources that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has expelled reporters from Guantanamo Naval Base. The reporters arrived there at the invitation of the admiral in charge of the prison to cover the recent suicides of three detaineesJust at the time when the administration should forthrightly address the deaths, they 're hiding behind a wall of secrecy and avoiding accountability. It 's reasonable to ask "What are they hiding? "
The press crackdown is this administration's latest betrayal of fundamental American values. Like vermin under a rock the Bush administration thrives in darkness and fears the purifying sunlight of a free press.
