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Collateral Murder was not a shocking revelation. The Washington Post ran a transcript of that video, scene for scene, a year before the video was released. The video only shocked people who don't read.


There is a difference between reading a description of a video and seeing it.


Surely you don't believe that everyone reads the Washington Post?


The Washington Post reported an event in excruciating detail, but its later disclosure by Wikileaks is a "revelation" because nobody reads the news?


Do you have a link to the original story? A lot depends on how something is framed.


Here's one:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09...

It was very annoying to go track this down.




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