Bush administration's censorship of educational film

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Bush administration's censorship of educational film
Cold War tv series 1998

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_%28TV_series%29 (http://www.anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_%28TV_series%29)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170896/ (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0170896/)

I paste these artciles so that you know what im talking about, which documentary.

Has anybody watched this?

Here is what the Bush admins did with this documentary when they invaded afghanistan in november 2001.

Found this mighty disturbing.

Declassified footage
The Cold War documentary series was first broadcast in 1998 and released in VHS videocassette. After the September 11, 2001 attacks (http://www.anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11%2C_2001_attacks), the George W. Bush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush) administration re-classified as "secret" many already declassified documents and much film — specifically documents and film that might compromise American military operations occurring in Afghanistan in November 2001 — incidentally the month when Cold War officially went out of VHS print, with only few warehouse stock copies remaining for retail sale until the middle of 2002.
Episodes number 19, "Freeze", and number 20, "Soldiers of God", contain film evidence of the United States — per Cold War policy — the Afghan mujahideen (http://www.anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen#Mujahideen_of_Afghanistan) with weapons and military aid via the intermediary Pakistani ISI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISI). The episodes feature mujahideen leaders and soldiers and Afghan citizens telling of life under Soviet occupation, and shows Muslim soldiers demonstrating how they fought and defeated the Soviet Army in the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan.
Episode 20, "Soldiers of God", shows a Central Intelligence Agency (http://www.anonym.to/?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency) officer, in 1980, encouraging the Muslim Afghan mujahideen to fight the Soviets — while assuring them of unconditional American government support; and interviewed State Department (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_State_Department) officials confirming that the United States uncritically supported the Pakistani government for the sake of American interests in Afghanistan.

im saddened they would do this to a beautiful tv series.

But I am a very lucky person. When it first came out in 1998 it came on tv here in canada on the history channel. I taped off the entire thing, took me several months to do it. But the end result is I have the whole uncensored documentary on vhs, not tampered with, or anything. I will have it transfered to dvds when i can.

But it shows how disturbing the Bush administration is.

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But it shows how disturbing the Bush administration is.

You entire post is based on a false premise: that it is illegal to disseminate classified information. This is not correct. Thanks to the First Amendment, classification allows for punishment and prosecution of state employees, but unaffiliated citizens are not required to do anything in particular. Potentially, the information could be supressed on the grounds that its dissemination would create a clear and present danger of death or substantial bodily harm, but otherwise, unless you are a government employee, you are free to blab classified information to whomever you want. The media does it all the time.

Therefore, this documentary is not in any way "censored" (notice, that, despite the insinuations on wikipedia, that word is never used) - it can still be broadcast and distributed just as it was before. The only difference is that it would be harder to make the film today because the primary sources would not be as easily available.