Screw optics. There was a time when the media would sit on a story because it threatened the lives of our service personnel or others. Now it's full speed ahead, damn the results. It needs to stop.
That includes the AF1 story, too.
(And I recall an embedded Geraldo drawing a map in the dirt showing what his unit who was engaged with the enemy was going to do to flank them, in real time... (as if the other side never watches TV).
(BTW, That was the end of that. Everyone got briefings after that.)
