We thought they'd never end..."
The good news is that - 40 years on - The New York Times is being trashed by own readers for cowardice.
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The story of an attempt to extract public information from the Department of National Defence. Original application: 14 December 2006. This blog is just biding its time, waiting for the last Canadian soldier to leave Afghanistan.