World Wide Web Quotes
Misquoted. In a March 9, 1999 interview on CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked the candidate Gore to describe what distinguished him from his Democratic challenger, New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley. In part, he said: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” It was clumsy wording which was subsequently construed as Gore claiming to have invented the Internet, initially popularized by Declan McCullagh, a libertarian writer, in a post to Wired.
For example, most of the documents that are classified as secret in the CIA are so classified because the censor thought the information might be damaging to the CIA’s interest, not the American citizen’s. However, there is a strange logic that is sometimes given to justify censoring material that would embarrass the agency: If the agency is embarrassed, public support and confidence in the agency will be eroded, and that in turn will cause investigations, reviews, and possible diminished budgets. This would be distracting from the agency’s mission of keeping Americans safe, so the public should be kept in the dark about embarrassing material.
