Originally Posted by host

powerclown, is it your position that if a news media outlet intiates a report with an inaccurate or false claim that a government operation is secret, when it actually isn't, it is proper and justifiable conduct on the part of the POTUS and the VEEP, to validate the inaccurate or deceitful reporting by attacking the offending media outlet repeatedly in public statements, with criticism that officially validates the flawed reporting as the reporting of "secret methods and sources", when these elected officials have knowledge that the erroneous reporting did not involve publication of "secret methods and sources", but instead involved reporting of details that were long available in the public domain? Wouldn't our president and vice-president, in those circumstances, either avoid commenting, or if they did, simply inform the public that the claim that a "secret government program" was being reported, was intentionally false or misleading, on the part of the reporting news media outlet?