With all the important diaries here today, I hesitate to post this one but after doing a search and finding no mention of it, I think it's worth of bringing to the attention of Kossacks.
It happened at a Saturday speech by Rumsfeld in Beverly Hills, CA.
As Rumsfeld was leaving the event after his speech, I took a few steps out of the media area where I had been sitting, and said to him, "Mr. Secretary, military families think you're lying to them. Why won't you meet with them?" The Secretary ignored me as two men who appeared to be
Secret Service agents aggressively removed me from the premises. I know of no other instance in which government agents have been used to physically assault a reporter for mildly questioning a public servant. None of my media brethren have so far come to my defense, despite the possibility they could be similarly bullied merely for doing their jobs.
If anybody has any background info on the reporter, Jeff Norman, please comment. The story at yahoo could really used some freeping. http://tinyurl.com/98y5r