Giving Aid and Comfort to the Press

Memo to Defense Department public affairs officers: The boss says if you don't give reporters the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, well, then you're a traitor. From Donald Rumsfeld's op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal: "When a government official is found to have put out information that is not exactly correct or fully complete--even in good faith--it plays into the hands of our enemies, who seize on any fault to try to harm the American system."