POST SCRIPTS

We had such a story today that dealt with the transporting of nuclear weapons by the USAF and that [said] transport was in violation of a prior presidential order. That much we know is 100% factual, people in the military have acknowledged it, people were reprimanded, and it sparked an investigation by the USAF. Also the Pentagon admitted it... so I'm going with, it was real in at least that context.

However, this particular story I posted, that was forwarded to me, (not that that should excuse me for posting it), frequently referred to what it claimed was "classified information." It went into great detail, almost too much detail, about officers' names and "code" names for special classified operations and detailed a real scary plan. I posted it quickly without giving it enough thought and now at my discretion I decided to pull the story.

I censored a news story and I am completely to blame for it.

Why did I do this? Well, it was definitely a good story and it was a national publication too, so I wasn't putting anything out that wasn't already widely known, but after reading the story and re-reading it and going to other news stories on the same subject, I had to concluded that either the story was planted by the government or it was a real leak that contained way too much information that was correct and therefore should never have been disclosed or was incorrect and drew too many unsupportable conclusions. In the latter case it definitely should not have been disclosed here!

Until such time as I have a better handle on this story, I prefer to err on the side of caution and I will be doing some follow up on it, you can bet on that!

In closing, there seems to be a considerable number of folks on the net who think this USAF nuke story was deliberately leaked to send a message to Iran to gain a response favorable to our national security. Maybe... but at this point it should be considered just speculation. So there it is, a very rare censor by yours truly...my appologies, but I had to do it.