WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS? - AT 3:58 P.M. ET:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Navy is moving a huge amphibious ship closer to the scene of the pirate hostage standoff off Somalia.

Defense officials say the USS Boxer will be nearby soon. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss sensitive ship movements.

The Boxer is the flag ship for a multination anti-piracy task force. The Boxer resembles a small aircraft carrier. It has a crew of more than 1,000, a mobile hospital, missile launchers and about two dozen helicopters and attack planes.

COMMENT:  Yes, ship movements are sensitive.  And yet, here is AP publishing information about one of those sensitive movements - something that could put American sailors and Marines in jeopardy, and give the pirate groups advance warning of something we might do.  Brilliant, really brilliant. 

I guess the AP will tell us that the people have "a right to know."  Yeah, sure.  We will give you volumes at Urgent Agenda about what the American people apparently don't have a right to know - like the radical backgrounds and beliefs of many "progressives," including those in government.  Guess it depends on the kind of "knowledge" they want to give us.

April 10, 2009