Censorship and self-censorship - by David Fickling
American writer HL Mencken earned himself a place in the reporter's hall of fame with his comment that the proper relationship between a journalist and a politician should be akin to that between a dog and a lamp-post. But the lamp-post has a nasty habit of pissing back, as it did yesterday when President Bush savaged the US media for its "disgraceful" disclosure of a CIA programme that monitors millions of international banking transactions to track down the sources of terrorist funding.
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