south carolina said yes to the president s company and that was flat out not true. we now know not only was that application not approved, it s not going to be approved. they just got told no now last night. so the trump organization lawyer lied to us directly. we know that in full technicolor now and as of tonight we know mid-level regulators in south carolina state government had the uncomfortable task of staring down the most powerful man in the world, the man who happens to be known for suing companies and threatening states and threatening people who defy him but they steeled themselves and made their decision. this is a nutting thing to have to put them through but that s our world now and the folks in south carolina are first to face it. this is going to happen all through this presidency and all over the country. this was first. hang in there, south carolina and trump organization personnel, stop lying to news
and all the visual evidence of them. and for years we did not see them. and then one day a blogger in arizona got a letter from the department of defense. that blogger was named russ kick. and he specializes in finding and preserving and publishing documents that the government wants to keep hid el paso. and he had been asking repeatedly in all different kinds of ways for photos of the solemn ceremonies. he appealed when the pentagon turned him down. and then out of the blue one day they sent him a cd with 361 photographs showing the return of fallen service members and the remains of astronauts who died on board the columbia in 2003. all coming home to dover air force base. and most people, including many news organizations didn t realize that the photos existed at at all. didn t realize that the defense department was taking these photographs to document the transfer ceremonies in the first place. there was a media ban on the media taking their own photos or
there were pictures the government meant for you to never see when the u.s. invaded iraq at the outset of that war in 2003. president george w. bush declared that there would be no arrival ceremonies and no media coverage of military casualties caskets. americans could see the combat. they were happy to embed reporters with the military to make sure the public saw that, but americans would not be able to see for ourselves this other part of the war, the part where we see the human cost to u.s. troops and their families. it s not that there were no pictures of the flag-draped coffins coming back from iraq. the pentagon had pictures. but they wouldn t release them. and they wouldn t let the media take their own. they walled off those ceremonies
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government stray so far from the mainstream of the country s understanding of the racial issue? how a president at this stage in our history could play with this kind of an issue for political reasons. one troubling aspect about the bob jones affair is what it says about the justice department today. an attorney general is supposed to protect his president, not embarrass him. but in this case, a band of young zealots in the justice department pressed for the legal switch to give bob jones its tax exemption. then the times goes ahead and names the young zealots in the justice department that had pushed for this radical ruling that was so disastrous at the supreme court. among the names he gives is a justice department lawyer named charles cooper. better known as chuck cooper. chuck cooper got actually promoted in the reagan administration after the bob jones did sast. within a few years he was assistant attorney general and by then he was appearing on the nightly news himself as the